Word: francos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quieter investigation by Correspondent Matthews cleared up many other points about this greatest battle of the war. Because Rightist planes won and kept control of the air throughout the battle, there had been no reports to contradict Franco's claims and for a week the press had been misled into believing that most of Teruel had been retaken by his troops. Actually, through the ten bloody days it lasted, the Rightist counteroffensive never touched Teruel itself, got no closer than four miles from the city. Evidence from other sources indicates that the three U. S. and British correspondents with...
...height of the Rightist counteroffensive Franco's forces were able to cut communications between the Leftist command in Teruel and its two wings. But neither side could bring sufficient reinforcements through the snow, and the Left wings held until the Rightist wave had broken...
...until success is complete. Last week U. S. Airman Harold ("Whitey") Dahl, who was captured by the Rightists while fighting for the Leftists, sentenced to death and then reprieved (TIME, Oct. 18, et ante), had every reason to wish that his wife had not burbled, "I used on General Franco all the sob technique I learned in my years on the stage." In appealing by letter to Franco to save Whitey, Mrs. Dahl enclosed a picture of her handsome self in a low-cut evening dress, afterward claimed to have received a reply in which the General wrote "your obedient...
...night. At this point, exuberants in Salamanca were proclaiming a complete Rightist victory, publishing detailed descriptions of the relief of the garrison who had doggedly fought for their lives in the Cathedral, the Seminary and the Civil Government Building. Actually the Rightist wave broke at the city gates. Generalissimo Franco, following Leftist tactics in reverse, sent another column cross-country to retake Campillo and Villastar. Thus at week's end the battle moved into its second phase. The snow stopped, hundreds of stranded trucks dug themselves out for the relief of both lines, and Benito Mussolini, taking no chances...
...Santa Eulalia and then to Saragossa beside his wounded friends, it was found that Correspondent Neil, who nearly died of a chest hemorrhage in Ethiopia was suffering from 34 shrapnel wounds. A Catholic priest gave his blood for a transfusion during the night and none other than El Caudillo Franco took time off from the greatest battle of his life to telephone about his condition. But gangrene had set in. Not realizing the seriousness of his wounds, worrying about his typewriter and still hoping for a glass of beer on the morrow, Eddie Neil died...