Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Francisco Franco, again busy over staff maps with his big soft pencil, directed last week the Rightist recapture of Teruel, bloody "Spanish Verdun." Inside this little city, Valentin Gonsalez, a picturesque Leftist Army leader known as El Campesino ("The Peasant"), was busy dynamiting such civic buildings as were not already in ruins, while the 20,000 Leftists holding Teruel clung grimly to their posts...
...House-to-house fighting is the enemy's style, not ours," General Franco told correspondents. "That is just what they want, but we are not going to oblige them because we can always prove our superiority in the open battlefield, and we do not have to take Teruel their...
...days later the official results were announced. According to the Leftist Government: their forces had withdrawn from Teruel in perfect order and taken up strong positions nine miles back. According to General Franco: 16,000 Leftists had been taken prisoner, 9,000 buried. Striking an average, neutrals guessed that the Leftists had given a good account of themselves, had succeeded in fighting their way out with heavy losses...
...return to revolutionary principles was at hand, there was no indication of it in the U. S. Communist Party. The Daily Worker appealed to patriotic sentiment by printing a picture of a capitalistic U. S. flag riddled by General Franco's bombers as it flew over Barcelona's Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. building. Meantime the two tiptop U. S. Communists, William Z. Foster and Earl Browder, had returned to Manhattan from Moscow, still talking collective security, which means support of Capitalist Franklin Roosevelt. Mr. Browder, who holds down the same official...
...Teruel's outskirts. Rightists opened a bombardment of the city with their heaviest artillery, sent a bombing fleet over it. Thereupon the Leftists took to the air, staged one of the most exciting airplane battles in months. Sent down in flames by a Leftist machine gunner, General Franco's officers admitted, was the Rightists' ace flyer, Carlos de Haya. While Rightists claimed the capture or destruction of thousands of Leftist soldiers and began to hail the battle as the turning point of the war, a series of explosions suddenly shook the city's outskirts. Leftists, answering...