Word: francos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From his post as Ambassador to dying Loyalist Spain the President recalled Claude Gernade Bowers, to consult about recognizing Generalissimo Franco's regime. To Moscow, to replace Joseph Edward
...battle lines remained intact. A serious revolt of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's sympathizers was put down in Loyalist Cartagena and 30 Loyalist aviators escaped to Morocco in their planes. In their first manifesto members of the new Government even uttered bold words about "resisting to the utmost limit" and sinking or swimming together. But General Casado is an old-line career officer whose political attachments are much nearer to those of Generalissimo Franco than to Loyalist radicals. Moreover, prominent in the new junta is Julián Besteiro, former professor of logic at Madrid University, who months...
...developments gave prominence to the Spanish question. First, a conference between Claude G. Bowers, U. S. Ambassador to Loyalist Spain, and Undersecretary of State Summer Welles, and secondly, doubtful but persistent reports that Franco's regime considers asking the return of Puerto Rice, former Spanish possession now held by the United States...
Germany and Italy will not produce a war crisis this spring, Fritz Morstein Marx, assistant professor of Government, declared in an interview yesterday. Hitler and Mussolini are conscious of the fact that England and Franco will not sacrifice any of their vital interests...
Another weakness of the book is the author's propensity to minimize or to ignore completely the possibility of friction arising in other European danger spots. Tunis comes in but for passing mention. General Franco is assumed to be already a pawn in the hands of Fascist dictators...