Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...divided responsibility has resulted in conflicting expressions of opinion, on one hand by the executive committee, and on the other by the rest of the group, both of which were designated as the "official" stand of the Young Conservatives. Thus it was announced that they were in support of Franco and that they weren't, that they favored the Teacher's Oath and that they didn't, and yesterday that they both opposed and favored the appointment of Hicks, at one and the same time...
...nearer France on the coast. Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin called for 100,000 fresh volunteers for the People's Army, and Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto no longer spoke of victory but tried to persuade the French that unless they sent help the methodical advance of Generalissimo Francisco Franco might not stop in Spain but smash right on into the French Republic...
This week Generalissimo Franco replied directly to a protest by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with a note saying that the Rightists bomb cities and towns "only when military necessity leaves no alternative." At Salamanca the official Rightist spokesman declared: "Our objective in Barcelona was primarily the terminals of the railroad system, but the casualties in the city were heavier than they might have been because the North subway station had been turned into an underground ammunition depot. The storage of ammunition in the heart of a city is against the most elementary rules of war. The result was that...
...Barcelona spokesman cracked back that General Franco is sticking his neck out to the Mediterranean between Catalan and Valencian armies which will close in on his flanks and crush the Rightists. "Never in history has a general offered his enemy such an opportunity...
...Catholic hierarchy to remonstrate with the Rightists, all of whose leaders are Catholic, about bombing civilians. At Vatican City last week it was officially announced that Pope Pius has already done so "on his own initiative." Reported the semi-official papal newsorgan L'Osservatore Romano: "General Franco appeared to have been touched by the paternal interest of the Holy Father in the innocent victims of the war and sent to the Holy Father filial and reassuring explanations and declarations...