Word: francos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...celebration" of the second anniversary of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's dictatorship, Spanish Rightist aviators last week dropped tens of thousands of quarter-pound loaves of bread over the hungry Leftist cities of Madrid and Barcelona. Believing they had pulled off a stunt calculated to persuade Leftists that a Rightist victory would mean a full stomach, Rightist propagandists announced that Madrid's share of the bread, safely floated to the ground in makeshift parachutes, had been 178,000 loaves. Later, ending a week's pause, Rightist batteries west of Madrid resumed their futile shelling of the city...
...tongues was attributed several heroic defenses. The brigades' arrival at Madrid in November 1936 and their stubborn resistance in the Casa del Campo outside Madrid, probably gave Leftist General José Miaja enough time to organize his defenses to prevent the city's capture by Generalissimo Francisco Franco. They appeared later in the successful halt of the Rightist Jarama River drive and in the panicky rout of Italian Fascist troops in the Battle of Brihuega, on the Guadalajara Road...
...Children (both Leftists and Rightists), it was natural enough for her to go to Spain. "I was favorably impressed," said she, "with conditions in the districts I visited." Retorted the Leftist spokesman of the Spanish Embassy in London: "If she is as interested in Government Spain as in Franco Spain, why didn't she include Government Spain in her tour?" Admitting that she was receiving hundreds of letters from irate Leftists, the conservative Prime Minister's sister-in-law explained unperturbed, "In our Barcelona canteen we are feeding 4,000 people every day. Our fund is expending...
...mere spectator last week as both belligerent armies virtually halted their small-scale war to watch the deepening European crisis. Leftist authorities believed that both sides in Spain would be weakened by a general European war, the Rightists because Germany and Italy would withdraw their generous aid from Generalissimo Franco, the Leftists because not only would they have little chance of receiving further Soviet aid, but Britain and other maritime powers would commandeer for their own use the tramp steamers which now run food and gasoline to Barcelona and Valencia. Leftists believed, however, that they would have less to lose...
Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco was reported to have withdrawn German pilots from bases near the French border as a "gesture of neutrality" toward France. From, internationally-governed Tangier, Morocco, came reports of anti-Rightist rioting in adjoining Spanish Morocco, resulting in 35 killed, 400 arrested. Meanwhile, the British freighters Bobie and Standlake were badly damaged-they were said to be the 64th and 65th to be bombed -and four British seamen killed by a Rightist air raid on Barcelona's water front. Other casualties: 31 dead, 112 wounded...