Word: francos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Franco's headquarters declared that one Leftist force of 500 militia had been cut down to. 14 survivors and claimed Miaja's offensive was costing "astronomical losses." Miaja relaxed censorship to permit Madrid correspondents to cable human interest stories of the killing in action of three U. S. volunteers who died last week for Leftist Spain with their "home addresses not listed": Jean Bronstein, Dave Walbo and Ray Peters. Trooper Larry O'Toole of Jersey City said he was wounded not in action but emerging from a store, his tunic stuffed with tomatoes and a bottle...
...General Franco's G.H.Q. tersely admitted that Madrid General Miaja was making "the most violent drive the enemy has ever attempted." According to the Leftists their advance swept westward of Madrid in a swath ten miles wide and ten miles deep. They claimed to have taken six strategic towns, including Brunete, while according to the Rightists this objective was never quite reached. On the northwest side of Madrid the Rightists remained entrenched in suburban University City, their "foot in Madrid's door." After five days of what all agreed had been some of the hardest troop fighting...
...General Franco this week claimed to be using 250 planes against Madrid and its offensive. His own offensive in the North was creeping toward Santander, bombed last week with leaflets reading "SURRENDER OR TAKE THE CONSEQUENCES!" Suddenly he sent to the British Government threats to seize British property in his part of Spain unless the Rightists are granted recognition and "belligerent rights" by London. For the first time in several weeks strong rumor revived that Adolf Hitler might further complicate matters by "creating a diversion from the Spanish war," attempting a putsch in Austria...
...week (see p. 24), when Downing Street received frantic word from the Quai d'Orsay that Premier Chautemps, in order to get his Cabinet over its first rocks in the Chamber, must be able to tell French Communists that he was successfully staving off this British gesture toward Franco. In this appeal Chautemps & Bonnet-who was on the telephone to London almost hourly seeking support for the franc- succeeded for the duration of the week, and French Communist Leader Jean Duclos announced in the Chamber that his followers would vote for the new Popular Front Government...
Plain as pikestaffs to most European observers were these facts: i) Now that Rightist General Franco has taken the iron mines and smelters of the Basque country, upon which Britain relies for many of her sinews of war (see below), His Majesty's Government are less favorably disposed than ever toward the Spanish Leftists, and this week official London was considering whether it may be "obliged by circumstances" to grant the Rightists diplomatic recognition. 2) The panic in Soviet Russia over wholesale "treason" and the shaky position of the French franc (see p. 17) were major indirect factors working...