Word: francos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Madrid's siege-front 3,000 Rightists, bottled up amid the wreckage of University City, were in bad shape. With little or no drinking water, crouching in shell holes, they waited day after day for General Franco's main body on the other side of the Manzanares River to come to their aid. General José Miaja, Leftist commander in central Spain, by loudspeakers ordered the trapped Rightists to surrender or be annihilated. They received the ultimatum with grim defiance, and by week's end were still holding their ground, besieged within a siege...
...spark of humanity relieved the savage horror of the civil war last week. With Rightist corpses strewn over the El Pardo sector, just northwest of Madrid, General Franco passed word from trench to trench to ask the Leftists for a brief truce during which he might bury his dead. The Leftists gave the cease-fire order and Franco's stretcher-bearers gathered up crumpled bodies while guns in other sectors boomed a gruesome requiem...
...Leftists alleged that they had uncovered "the largest spy ring found in the capital since the war started": 55 spys, including "a number of monks paid by Italian religious organizations" and twelve women ostensibly fighting for the Leftists, were charged with plotting to turn Madrid over to General Franco...
This week as the war's ninth month slid into the past, the Leftists hastily mobilized peasants and city workers to push the fierce drive few miles to the northwest of Teruel, General Franco's powerful garrison in eastern Spain, 150 miles from Madrid. Again and again the Leftists, backed by war planes, thrust forward in an effort to weaken General Franco's hold in that critical sector lest he succeed in wrecking their communications between Valencia and Barcelona...
Died. Major Ulciseno Franco Granero, 56, chief of Cuban President Federico Laredo Bru's aides; of cancer of the stomach; in Havana. He was one of the army sergeants who revolted in 1933 against Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes under his close friend Colonel Fulgencio Batista, who made him chief of the Cuban national police...