Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordered to "bring to the People's Army a pair of shoes, blanket, plate, knife, fork and spoon." The Leftist surprise offensive on Dec. 19, which captured Teruel, was the first major victory of the new People's Army. In canceling that victory last week General Franco did not himself win a major victory. For the expenditure of two months' time many lives and much materiel- none of which he could well spare-all he had to show was a wider Teruel salient (now containing 2,500 square miles against 2,125 square miles three months...
...happened to coincide with a general realization among Spaniards that Chamberlain, Hitler, Chautemps and Mussolini are now dickering toward a four-power agreement (see col. 2). Its effect would be to rule out any victory in Spain for the extreme Left-Communists, Anarchists and the more radical Socialists. General Franco's friends in Britain have always maintained he was ready for a "reasonable Spanish compromise," and with Hitler and Mussolini now telling Chamberlain they want not a square inch of Spanish soil, this week, for the first time in 19 months, peace in Spain became possible...
...last great German cities to go Nazi, that Austrian Nazis might conquer Austria from Graz, as Hitler conquered Germany from Munich. If the French would fight a German invasion of Austria, it is by no means certain they would invade Austria to suppress an uprising by Austrian Nazis. General Franco has not had to fight the French Army, and it is unlikely that Hitler would give Austrian Nazis less aid than he gave Franco. In such a situation it seemed eminently possible that Austrian Nazis might deliberately foment civil...
...disturbs the parent Times much as a squeaking Leftist mouse would disturb a capitalist elephant. Most galling is Better Times's latest boast: "A distinct improvement in the New York Times handling of news from Rebel Spain was noticed by readers after the exposure of William Carney as Franco's press agent* in the last issue of Better Times. . . . Mr. [Publisher Arthur Hays] Sulzberger is quoted as saying of the Spanish War, I confess to a vast sense of relief that I do not have to take sides either with Loyalist or Rebel.' He is glad...
Hardest hit by the action probably is grid captain Druze who was under consideration for the position of Freshman football coach next fall. Also affected is Ed Franco, All-American last season, who has been mentioned as coach at a New Jersey preparatory school next year