Word: francoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Agustin Zoroa Sánchez was handsome in the Latin way, with flashing black eyes, a hairline mustache and amorous lips. Perhaps he loved women, but three things filled his heart: devotion to Communism, resistance to Franco, and a longing for glory...
...Then Franco's police caught up with him. In prison at Alcalá de Henares, he and the other "politicals" were forced to go to Mass. One Sunday the priest delivered a sermon on the commandment No matarás (Thou shalt not kill). The prisoners murmured and the murmur rose to a roar: "No matarás! No matarás! No matarás!" The jailers decided that Sánchez had started it and gave him four months in solitary...
...John Alexander Tyler served in the German Army during the Franco-Prussian...
...General Francisco Franco-"A Little Guy with Guts." The only guy-little or big-'to pin Stalin's ears back...
...State for India in the Churchill government. He had been convicted 74 times on traffic charges. He had caused a scandal by falling in love with the prostitute who nightly occupied the most conspicuous spot in Piccadilly. He was a bankrupt. He had been an aide to Francisco Franco. During the war he joined the Germans and organized the British Free Corps...