Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lisbon, Spanish Pretender Don Juan hit the ceiling of his modest Portuguese hostel. Generalissimo Francisco Franco had propositioned him. The proposition (conveyed by Franco's brother Nicolas, who is Spain's Ambassador to Lisbon): Don Juan's eldest son, 9, should be handed over to the Franco Government to be trained in the principles of "the new Spanish order." Thus the dynasty would serve as a front for Franco, and the princeling would serve as a hostage if the dynasty became troublesome...
Cried Pretender Don Juan: "I am not prepared to be treated by General Franco as if I were the Sultan of Morocco...
...Pope Brewer wired from Madrid: "An engineer . . . starts at 8,000 pesetas (about $560) a year. It doesn't buy much. 'Can anyone live without buying from the black market?' I asked. 'Nobody,' Engineer Pepe Jimenez answered. ... He thinks the Franco regime has helped the working man." (Timesman Brewer added: "Anyone who thinks otherwise is unlikely to be an engineer...
...ordered the commanding general to make an insane attack. In the relief of Melilla, Barea slaved in a nightmare of stinking, mutilated dead. The Spanish Foreign Legion saved Melilla. Then and later Barea heard legionaries speak with awe of the cold and murderous courage of an officer named Francisco Franco. He also learned of a cynical doctrine held by some military careerists: it would never do to relieve Spain-either by complete success or withdrawal-of the mess and waste of the Moroccan adventure...
...Popular Front victory in the 1936 elections was something neither the caciques nor the army-nor the new Fascist Falange-could stomach. An ominous summer of street fights and rumors ended with Francisco Franco's moment-the vast confusion and fury of the Rightist uprising. Then, in Madrid, Barea saw gangsters and whores put on the overalls of "Milicianos," saw Anarchists and Socialists murdering each other and supposed Rightists without trial. He joined tipsy mobs setting churches afire and saw streets ringing with snipers' shots. It was months before the Loyalist Government could control its defenders...