Word: francos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME agrees that the diplomatic representatives of the Spanish Republic are the only ones accredited to the U. S. General Franco's unofficial representative in the U. S. is Don Juan Francisco de Cárdenas, onetime (1932-34) Spain's Ambassador at Washington, whose "Embassy" is suite No. 204 at Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel...
Portugal has a standing army of less than 30,000 men and 600 light machine-guns on a single order was obviously ridiculous. Dictator Salazar's Portugal is now an unofficial ally of Generalissimo Franco's Rightist Spain. So there was no reasonable doubt whither the 600 machine guns were destined...
Spain. Italy will continue to fight for the "Nationalists" under General Francisco Franco, will not tolerate "Bolshevists or anything of that sort...
Generalissimo Francisco Franco moved into the spotlight on the Spanish civil war stage last week, took personal command of the drive on Santander, last important Loyalist stronghold on the Biscay coast. Anxious to bolster his prestige, chubby Franco stood behind his lines, watching as his Rightists, Moors, Italian "volunteers" rolled down the sloping hills toward Santander...
...cause of this new revolution was a peace conference. The still-simmering dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay over the muggy Gran Chaco region has been in the hands of a conference, meeting intermittently in Buenos Aires since the war ended. Unfortunately for President Franco, he allowed the conferees to persuade him to order his troops back from the front-line positions where they have squatted for two years. Army officers, bitterly resentful that Franco was throwing away their bloody-won victory, carried out their coup, then gave him first a chance to change his mind, and finally the boot...