Word: francos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most countries wait until after their wars are over to show off their battlefields. Last week, however, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's newly opened Tourist Office announced that, beginning July 1, it would conduct tours into what was a year ago a bloody battlefield, is now a peaceful, although still partially ruined, countryside...
Chief announced aim of the Franco Tourist Office was to demonstrate that back of the front all is normal in Rightist Spain. Unannounced aim: to get needed foreign exchange for Rightist Spain's war. Tour No. 1 will run from burned Irun, on the French border, to Oviedo, scene of 15 months' fierce siege. Tour No. 2 will go from Tuy to Santander. Both tours will include such partially or wholly destroyed towns as Eibar, Guernica, Durango, Gijón, each a scene of important military engagements in Generalissimo Franco's last year's wiping...
Spanish War, Catholic publicists maintain that only by a Rightist victory can Christianity be saved in Spain, but thoughtful Catholics have been irritated by the hecklings of Protestant ministers and ecclesiastics who addressed a protest on Franco's bombings, not to Franco, but to the U. S. Catholic hierarchy...
Last winter, Editor Sedgwick, an inveterate globetrotter, visited Rightist Spain as the guest of the Franco Government-the kind of junket objective journalists usually turn down. When Guest Sedgwick reported that "the liberal spirit is clearly in the ascendant'' in Franco Spain, he brought upon himself unmeasured condemnation from dozens of liberal pro-Loyalist writers. Smartly, Mr. Sedgwick returned the blows. During Editor Sed-wick's recent travels, his place has been taken by wiry, effervescent Editor Edward Augustus Weeks Jr. La.;t week, 40-year-old "Ted" Weeks assumed the hallowed title of editor-in-chief...
...years Leon Daudet has been beating the drum for his fellow Royalist, dramatist and novelist, gushy Rene Benjamin. Little known in the U. S., where few of his books have been translated, Benjamin is known in France as a winner of a Goncourt Prize himself, as General Franco's most lyric supporter. Interviewing Franco last year, Benjamin called the general beautiful, lovely, ravishing, mysterious, tender and pure. "He is not tall," rhapsodized Author Benjamin, "his body is timid. Ah! His glance is unforgettable...