Word: francos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painting his name and an intricate monogram of the word VICTOR in hot bull's blood on the walls of the Cathedral or any of the university buildings. To do this for a distinguished stranger is the highest honor the university can pay. Thus to honor Generalissimo Francisco Franco, undergraduates last year scraped clear many generations of inscriptions by the Cathedral door, then used almost a whole bull-ful of blood to write his name in a panel twelve feet high...
Early last week it seemed that the Caudillo Franco had almost earned his title of Victor. Santander had fallen. Free for use on other fronts were 50,000 troops. Next objective in the northwest was Gijon, and as Rightists pushed westward along the Bay of Biscay they claimed Asturian troops were in full flight before them, 5,000 surrendering at the port town of Lanes. The Vatican had recognized the Rightist State. Off the tables of Marshal Pietro Badoglio in Rome was generally expected a new plan of attack by which Madrid would be captured before cold weather...
Then suddenly came an interruption that sent excited crowds shouting joyously in the shell-pocked streets of Madrid. Twenty miles southeast of Saragossa is the mountain-encircled town of Belchite, which boasts a nearby airdrome and is a most important strategic point on General Franco's long Saragossa-Teruel salient. For five days Leftist heavy artillery blasted at Belchite, then came the direct frontal attack led by suicidal dinamiteros. Fighting from house to house the Leftists wiped out two whole companies in Belchite's town hall, captured a detachment entrenched in a seminary and took the town. Leftists...
...Pope last week was not represented by an official delegate in Rightist Spain, though he had given de facto recognition to the Salamanca Government by accepting the credentials of General Franco's Charge d'Affaires to the Vatican (TIME, Sept...
...every Catholic bishop in the world an extensive letter, 10,000 words long, signed by himself, one other cardinal, six archbishops, 35 bishops, and five vicars capitular which did more than any ambassadorial recognition to show how far down the line the Vatican is willing to go with Franco's cause...