Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Franco was quoted: "This is the last chapter of the civil...
...General Franco's great push from behind Belchite went forward all week long. Objective was to reach the coast and split Catalonia off from the rest of Leftist Spain. The Rightists at latest reports had held Caspe against nine Leftist counterattacks. Leftists figured they had blocked any immediate Rightist advance via Lerida upon Barcelona, where Rightist bombers had slain over 1,000. This week Rightist artillery was pounding ahead of Rightist thrusts toward Gandesa, which is the junction point of two highways to the sea. Rightist planes were furiously bombing Tortosa and many other towns up and down...
...robust young men of aristocratic Spanish families who appear to have been living like fighting cocks, despite the acute food shortage in Leftist Spain. With typical Spanish braggadocio they announced, on landing in France, that they were at once proceeding by rail to Rightist Spain to enlist under General Franco...
Ability. Carefully labeling his views as his own and not official War Department opinions, Major Phillips wrote in a vein contrary to most previous expert opinions on the war: "Franco has been almost constantly on the offensive and has been everywhere successful, excepting his failure to take Madrid early in the war. The [Leftist] government army has shown itself incapable of sustained offensive action. Each of their costly offensives has had some initial success, and finally bogged and fell back when Franco brought troops up to counterattack. Troops with amateur commanders and amateur staffs cannot maneuver, they only stumble...
...regular officers who joined them, led by left-wing writers, parlor pinks and Communist tub thumpers, the Government has been unable, even with considerable help from competent foreign advisers, after a year and one half of war, to develop an army capable of fighting on equal terms with Franco's men. Franco's battles have been fought and won with numerical inferiority in every case. The Government superiority of manpower has been nullified by military incompetence...