Word: francos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three columns under Rightist Generalissimo Franco last week staged in central Aragón the widest offensive of Spain's 20-month-old war. During the first six days the Franco forces, behind the largest aerial concentration the war has seen, advanced along a 60-mile front, extending from Fuentes del Ebro southward to Montalban, recaptured Belchite and gained approximately 1,350 square miles of Leftist territory. Some 3,500 prisoners were taken, the Rightists announced, including 400 U. S. citizens of the Leftist Abraham Lincoln Battalion. At week's end one Rightist column was only about...
...from its Cartagena base in southeastern Spain one night last week and, 70 miles offshore, encountered three cruisers, four destroyers, almost the entire battle fleet of Rightist Spain. In a running two-hour battle the Leftist destroyers buried a torpedo in the 10,000-ton Baleares, flagship of the Franco fleet, which burst into flames as the oil tanks caught fire. The Leftists then put back to Cartagena, the Rightists high-tailed out to sea and two British antipiracy ships were left to pick up some 400 survivors from the Baleares' 750-man crew. Same day Leftist warplanes, determined...
Leftist officials said this was a Spanish battle of Jutland,* would end Franco's threat to blockade the Loyalist east coast. Jubilantly announced Foreign Minister José Giral Pereira at Barcelona: "The engagement is as important as was the taking of Teruel.† It inaugurates a new phase in the war activities of the navy." The enraged Rightists retaliated by sending out war planes which attacked Cartagena five times, raining bombs on the Government naval base. Leftists denied suffering any serious damage...
...coast between the fleets of Great Britain and Germany, in which, although the British lost 14 ships, 6,274 men and the Germans eleven ships, 2,545 men, Britain gained mastery of the seas for the remainder of the war. † On December 21: retaken on February 22 by Franco...
...exhibition of caricatures was organized by a new Franco-British Association of Art et Tourisme, sponsored by Their Excellencies the British and French Ambassadors, and numbering among its active officers Anglophile André Maurois. Frenchmen, who are still fond enough of Daumier and Grandville (TIME, Nov. 8) to use their drawings in modern advertisements, got plenty of fun out of their English predecessors and contemporaries, Hogarth, Rowlandson, Gillray, Cruikshank et al., represented by 391 sketches, engravings and lithographs. But this was only a foretaste of the grandeurs to come...