Word: francos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appalled and crushed at American public opinion. ... I have made my home in Madrid for the past 16 years, and have had the privilege and the joy of spending three weeks in White Spain under General Franco-where all is Peace, Law, Order, Justice, and life practically normal...
...bright half-moon shining on Madrid from a clear, starry sky helped intensify the bloody horror of Spain's Civil War last week. It meant that the capital's inhabitants, beleaguered for nearly four months, had no respite even at night from Generalissimo Francisco Franco's White bombers...
...desperate attempt to save the Madrid-Valencia road at which Generalissimo Franco's troops had been hammering for a fortnight, General José Miaja, Madrid's "Supreme Commander," led his Red Militia in person in an offensive on the Jarama River front southeast of the capital. To ensure surprise, trucks, and automobiles belonging to the Red Militia were camouflaged. Headlights, radiators, bumpers were painted to prevent their glittering in the sun. Immediately a White counterattack followed. Soon was raging what correspondents called "a massacre comparable to a battle in the World War." As Whites and Militia mowed each...
That night to newspapermen General Miaja emphasized the strength of Generalissimo Franco's resistance. Declared he: "You must remember that the Insurgents are not firing at us with candy drops...
...entry of further volunteers and munitions into Spain, agreed to set up land and sea patrols to isolate the country. Dictators Hitler and Mussolini joined in this round robin of Peace and Neutrality. "They now believe," explained the New York Times's Frederick T. Birchall, that Franco "has enough . . . help from outside to enable him to become master of Spain." Said the Earl of Plymouth, patient chairman of the Non-Intervention Committee: "Our work has not been in vain. ... I am able to say it has been successful...