Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waiting with great impatience. We are responsible people of Gijón and the enthusiasm in our streets is overwhelming. Arriba España! Viva Franco...
...surrender, most of them rudely made from bed sheets. Regardless of their political opinions, crowds on the streets cheered with enthusiasm. For them Gijón's surrender meant an end of bombs and shellfire, most of all it meant food. Even before the fall of Bilbao, Generalissimo Franco discovered that food, of which his part of Spain has plenty, was the best Rightist propaganda he could use. So last week trucks loaded with bread, sausages, corn and rice started rolling toward Gijón from Vitoria and Burgos even before the Rightist requetés entered the town...
...There are no more planes in Gijón." said one. "Against Franco's aviation no defense is possible. Bombs rain on the airfield. There is no more ammunition for the anti-aircraft guns...
Since the non-intervention patrol, and particularly since the "piracy" patrol British and French ships have mutually used strategic Port Mahon as an anchorage-one more reason for that extraordinary harmony of Franco-British policy which even the Germans were admiring last week...
...over to London and closeted himself with Whitehall officials (TIME, April 5). Three days later the curly-haired Leopold took the boat train for Brussels, carrying with him assurances that Great Britain, and France as well, would release Belgium from the Locarno Treaty obligations of 1925 and the Anglo-Franco-Belgian agreement of March 19, 1936 by which Belgium promised to help defend Britain and France against attack. Chief feather in the Diplomat-King's cap was agreement of the British and French Governments to maintain their end of the pact, namely, to aid Belgium if attacked...