Word: francos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have added 250 square miles to the territory controlled by Generalissimo Francisco Franco, including 18 towns and villages and the strategically important Palomera mountain range, which dominates the main Teruel-Saragossa road on. the east...
...Government of Rumania, headed by Premier Octavian Goga, resembles German fascism in its (1 antiSemitism, 2 abolition of the Monarchy, 3 abolition of all labor unions, 4 abolition of all but one political party, 5 active support of General Franco in Spain...
Most ominous Cabinet member is iron-fisted General Martinez Anido, Minister of Public Order, who for the past ten months has headed Franco's secret police, his hard bitten Guardia Civil, his frontier and highway guards. He was for seven years Minister of the Interior under Spain's late Dictator, Primo de Rivera (TIME, Dec. 2, 1929), suppressed Communists and Anarchists in Barcelona with such vigor that they retaliated by nicknaming him. "The Epileptic Pig." His nature has not softened...
...further German aid for General Franco, something to which German Army leaders have been opposed from the first, while Herr Hitler has half-heartedly kept insisting that in Spain Germany ought to go the whole way "to save Europe from Bolshevism...
...guest column. Hearst editors condemned her account as Loyalist propaganda and brushed aside Host Winchell's stubborn defense of his guest. Two days later the Hearst New York Journal and American favored ex-Japanese Ambassador W. Cameron Forbes with a big headline: "EX-ENVOY FORBES HAILS FRANCO RULE-People Happy and Have Plenty in Nationalist Spain, He Says...