Word: francos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gibraltar last week the Rightist Government sent an official announcement that El Caudillo Francisco Franco has expelled from Rightist Spain Francis Xavier Charles Marie Anne Joseph, Prince of Bourbon-Parma, Carlist pretender to Spain's vanished throne...
Among the Spanish Rightist parties which back the Franco Government are two royalist groups. Of these the Legitimists want to enthrone former King Alfonso XIII's third son Don Juan. The Carlists had as their candidate old Don Alfonso Carlos, who 65 years ago tried by an armed insurrection to seize the throne. When the new revolution broke out 18 months ago, he was 86. All he did was to order some 60,000 Carlists to fight under Generalissimo Franco while he sat tight in Vienna. Then one day he was killed by an automobile, and his second cousin...
Last summer in Salamanca, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's capital, workmen piled a double row of railway ties between the arches of a double colonnade that supports one side of the city's great Plaza Mayor, filled the intervening space with sand bags. This was to be a refugio against possible air raids. They took their time about it, for in over a year's warfare no Leftist planes had appeared over Salamanca. Leftist authorities had repeatedly promised that civilian centres would never be bombed by their planes. Nonetheless, Salamanca was surrounded by the very latest German anti...
Actually, only eight people were killed and damage was limited to a few narrow streets in the working class district. El Caudillo Franco's headquarters, the artillery general staff, the press and propaganda departments and the general staff headquarters are all within 100 yards of Salamanca's great ornate cathedral, one of the finest in Spain. Proof that the Leftist raid on Salamanca was not an isolated incident but represented a complete change in policy came quickly. In another Leftist raid, against blustering Queipo de Llano's private bailiwick, the city of Seville, five tons of bombs...
Meanwhile, for the third time bitter fighting was under way at Teruel. Generalissimo Franco, having decided that to recapture that city was a better psychological move than starting another offensive, laid down the heaviest artillery barrage the war has yet seen. Wave after wave of his infantry followed, finally captured El Muleton, the second of Teruel's four strategic heights to be regained by the Rightists. Sticking grimly to their lines, Leftist officers admitted that if El Caudillo had sufficient reserves, Teruel might fall to the Rightists again, pointed out that this would leave Franco just where...