Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centre of Teruel (TIME, Jan. 3 et ante), and the driving of his lines some six miles beyond the city, meant no more than the nipping of that fingernail. In another sense, it was a major victory of the war, for it took the initiative away from General Franco just as he was about to launch his long-planned drive and induced him to pour his reserves of men and munitions into the battlefront chosen by his opponents. Apparently it ended the danger of a surprise Rightist offensive at any other point for months to come. Psychologically it was just...
...object of the drive on Teruel was to pull down the full force of Franco's armies on Leftist heads, it succeeded last week beyond measure. With his toughest general, Miguel (siege of Oviedo) Aranda, and his ablest General, Jose Fidel (capture of Bilbao) Davila, leading the counterattack, El Caudillo himself reportedly took charge of the campaign from field headquarters 75 miles northwest at Calatayud...
...command did not hold back either. Playing the psychological angle for all it was worth in the early days of the battle, Barcelona boasted that the fanatical defenders of Teruel's seminary, bank and cathedral would be given every opportunity to surrender with honor in contrast to General Franco's notorious mass executions in territory he has conquered...
...Franco, whose own offensive has been eight weeks delayed, apparently had other troubles to contend with. All week he kept the French and Portuguese frontiers tight shut, but rumors continued to leak through: A "vast conspiracy by foreign elements" had threatened the lives of Franco & several of his officers and a large amount of cash had been stolen from the Rightist treasury at Salamanca...
...contemporary conquerors and their technique. Most were better as expressions of hot feeling than as paintings. A few, by Max Weber, Nathanial Dirk, Arnold Blanch, Victor Candell, William Cropper, Mervin Jules, were excellent as both. None equaled a set of etchings by Picasso called Dreams and Lies of Franco, caricaturing El Caudillo as an inhuman, hairy nightmare. Favorite painting of a group of Amalgamated Clothing Workers who showed up at the opening was Two Generations, by Alexander Z. Kruse: the Kaiser as a kangaroo carrying a baby kangaroo earmarked with swastikas...