Word: francos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish winter closes down. Gijon, last Leftist stronghold on the Bay of Biscay, was so close to capture that most of its officials had already fled to sanctuary in France, and in the field of foreign diplomacy, where so much of Spain's war has been fought, Generalissimo Franco's chief supporter, Italy, was finishing a most successful week...
...Lloyd George, who in view of his age should advise seriousness and prudence, in a recent speech tossed to his audience hare-brained figures. . . ." Urgent notes went to Rome inviting the Fascist Government to discuss "immediate" withdrawal of foreign volunteers at a three-power conference. Behind this were veiled Franco-British threats of force, varying from opening the Catalan frontier for munitions and volunteers from France, to matching Italian volunteers with similar detachments of the French regular army...
...advantage too hard, Italy's Ambassador in London, chin-tufted Dino Grandi announced last week that Italy was not "unalterably" opposed to withdrawing her "volunteers." Italy was willing, said he, to make a "symbolic recall" of approximately 5,000 men-IF belligerent rights were awarded General Franco at once, and IF an equivalent number of foreign volunteers were withdrawn from the Leftist armdes at the same time...
...long. Three years ago it was no secret to European war offices that British firms and British military engineers were said to be building vast fortifications around the harbors of Majorca and Minorca. Nevertheless, when, a year ago, Italy virtually seized Majorca and Iviza in the name of General Franco, Britain held her peace for the reason that Minorca, easternmost of the three islands and most important with regard to Britain's lifeline, remained safe in Leftist hands, and Minorca has about the finest natural harbor in the Mediterranean at Port Mahon...
...final rush of Legionnaires off arriving ships brought the number in France to 4,500 and with ample dignity they gathered to see dedicated the Franco-U. S. War Monument just outside Versailles on the highway to Paris. Built almost entirely with money donated in small sums by school children and their elders throughout France, the monument features statues of General John Joseph Pershing and the Marquis de Lafayette...