Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Game Spoiled. According to the Ciano version, what really spoiled this Axis game was the overture of Neville Chamberlain to Joseph Stalin and the consequent alarm of Adolf Hitler lest he have to face an Anglo-Franco-Russian lineup. The action of the democracies, said Count Ciano, so bolstered the prestige of the Soviet Government that the Nazis had to do something about it. "If the great democracies had ignored Russia," feelingly continued Ciano, "Germany would have had well-founded motives for doing the same." Thus Britain and France were officially blamed for starting...
...telephoned Franco, Hitler, Chamberlain and Lebrun. - Recent U. S. citizens: Cinemactresses Luise Rainer, Marlene Dietrich, Dominic Mussolini, second cousin to Benito...
...City of London and the Paris Bourse. It houses such famous institutions as the Amsterdamsche Bank n. v., the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappy n. v., Mendelssohn & Co. (now defunct), whose proprietors will turn a guilder almost anywhere they can find one. They are still sorry that Spain's Dictator Franco turned down their offer to bank him last spring. After Adolf Hitler came to power, Amsterdam became a concentration camp for refugee money. The city's grain market is one of the biggest in Europe; its stock-market is a sensitive, if not completely reliable, seismograph of world conditions...
...Spanish people are still fighting to preserve their freedom of thought," Mira continued, "and the reason Franco is suppressing all the liberals in Spain is his fear of being assassinated...
Every liberal is being executed or jailed by Franco today in an effort stop "intellectual resistance" to his government. "Books are being burned only because they are written by liberals, even those that deal with mathematics, of all things...