Word: francos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franco has sanctioned the bombing of women and children. . . . Lee notably succeeded in keeping war on the battlefield, where he and most of his soldiers thought it belonged...
TIME has posited a resemblance between Franco and Lee; let TIME defend its thesis...
...Franco aspires to be a tinpot Dictator. Lee declined during the Civil War and after, to convert the almost fanatical worship of his people, into political power for himself...
...biased is TIME, but Reader Lamar, who does not have all his facts straight. General Franco did not start the Spanish revolution. The revolt's military leader was José Sanjurjo, killed in an airplane crash on the third day of the war. General Franco's army of 450,000 contains at least 300,000 Spaniards by the count of the Spanish Embassy in Washington...
...more ways than one Spain's Franco resembles the South's Lee. The government of each sought foreign aid. Both men renounced the uniform of the army they had been bred to. When a new social order threatened, both decided to forego the new, stick to the old with their class and kind...