Word: francoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both sides had planned carefully. Spanish Republicans had announced a "month of agitation" to attract U.N. attention to Franco repression. But the Caudillo acted first, suddenly uncovered for U.N. gaze a Communist cell conspiring in Madrid, claimed to have bagged the entire central committee of the Spanish Communist Party. He clapped some 70 persons into prison incommunicado. Next day, as if with damp fuses, 14 bombs burst belatedly in front of Madrid food shops...
There were other signs of unrest in Spain. The New York Herald Tribune's William Attwood got into the antiCommunist, anti-Franco northern Basque provinces last week, found "a facade of order and prosperity that would deceive a casual tourist, a poverty-stricken land where a man who dares to say what he thinks is thrown into jail-or worse...
Spain. In his initial report, Secretary General Trygve Lie bluntly said he hoped that U.N. would "find ways and means by which liberty . . . may be restored in Spain." The Russians were obviously pleased, and no other important delegation hurried to object. Argentina's Jose Arce obliquely defended Franco by urging caution against "any downfall in the old-established human societies and centers of culture...
Monday, April 26, 1937 was a market day in Guernica. The town's 7,000 population was swollen by 3,000 Loyalist refugees. Francisco Franco's rebel armies were still far away-but at 4:30 p.m. German Junkers and Heinkels started coming over in waves, every 20 minutes. They dropped 1,000-pounders (monsters at that time) and great showers of incendiaries, and since there was no antiaircraft they flew low and machine-gunned fleeing victims...
Hermann Wilhelm Goring, the man who was said to have ordered the Guernica job as practice and demonstration for his Luftwaffe, was ignominiously dead last week, his ashes scattered to the four winds. But the man for whom Goring did the job-Francisco Franco-was very much alive. Moreover, Guernica had been completely rebuilt. In gratitude, the citizens of Guernica last week honored Franco with the "freedom of the borough...