Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loose in Paris just after the German conquest. She was young, attractive, divorced, and she found it all too easy to have a good time. An ex-captain of the Polish army got her into the Réseau Interallié, an important network of the Franco-British underground. This Pole, a handsome man named Roman Czerniawsky, had been an intelligence officer. With Mathilde's brilliant help, he was soon feeding the British war office valuable information on the German order of battle. Mathilde was the network's cryptographer. Her fervently admiring comrades called her La Chatte...
...last few years she had been fined or imprisoned for breaching the peace, resisting the law and distributing anti-government propaganda. This time the Falangists had charged her with treason because she had shouted seditious comments at the funeral of a monarchist friend who had died in a Franco prison...
...candlelit room at the War Ministry a military court of five officers set themselves to the trial of the turbulent duchess. At first, she answered their questions with composure. "Yes," she purred, "I am a monarchist. Yes, I distributed anti-Franco propaganda. Yes, I would do it again if set free...
...human beings than mere Existencils; the ideas lack value because Sartre insists on using them as bombs rather than light bulbs. For all its intellectualism, The Victors is so crammed to the brim with lurid scenes and dated dramaturgy that there is a strange air about it of the Franco-Prussian...
...Franco seemed to be more firmly in the saddle than ever. Organized opposition had been largely obliterated. The most obvious, evidences that Spain is not a free country are the absence of criticism in the press, and the ubiquity of the army, which is the main prop of the regime. Spain has 350,000 to 400,000 well-fed, well-treated soldiers under arms, and if the need arose she could send a million trained men to battle, though with poor and insufficient weapons...