Word: francos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rightists for over a year. Instead they sent from north & south two columns accompanied by tanks and planes to nip the line of communications behind the city. By the fourth day Teruel was surrounded, despite counter-attacks from the garrison of 60,000 Rightists, despite attempts of Generalissimo Franco to force relief troops through. Into the snowy streets of Teruel marched ten hostages released by the attackers to carry a promise of amnesty to all civilians and Rightists who would surrender by 9 a. m. on the following morning. Nobody surrendered. Through the day Leftist troops continued to fight from...
...another attack on the city. Bombers and pursuit planes of both sides were busy raiding concentration points, troop trains and munitions dumps, shadow-boxing violently to try to find out who was trying to do what, where. A sign that at least the Moorish reserves of El Caudillo Franco were beginning to run low came from Algeciras last week, where 500 bewildered boys were unloaded from the transport Cindad de Algeciras. None of them appeared to be more than 13 years...
...gold flag of Rightist Spain went up on the Spanish legation at Tokyo last week, symbol of official recognition of the Franco Regime by the Japanese Government. The U. S. State Department moved three weeks ago to have the U. S. consulate in Rightist Bilbao reopened by Mr. W. E. Chapman, who has been promoted from Consul to Second Secretary of Embassy, a diplomatic rank, since the consulate was closed six months ago. Last week Senor Antonio San Groniz, protocol officer to Rightist Generalissimo Franco, stated that upon reopening of the U. S. consulate "we would not infer that...
Leftist planes scouting over the Guadarramas reported new concentrations of Rightist troops near Guadalajara. Other sources reported nearly 100,000 Rightist troops going southward to join the Andalusian army of boastful "Radio General" Queipo de Llano. At week's end came a cracker. El Caudillo Franco issued an ultimatum to the Barcelona Government. The Negrin Cabinet must agree to an "unconditional surrender" before December 5 or else the long prepared Rightist offensive would start...
...Boss Prieto have been tentatively drawing nearer to the Catholic element in Leftist Spain by permitting young Catholics to join the Leftist youth organizations -hitherto 100% Marxist. This tendency the Spanish Lenin has especially denounced. Last week, appeared a third paradox, a manifesto issued by Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco as the civil war entered its 17th month: "Our victory will bring a healthy redistribution of wealth! We are carrying out a profound revolution of the social order, inspired by the principles of the Catholic church. The number of rich persons will diminish and there will be less poverty...