Word: francos
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...reputation as a fair, able officer. In 1925, while leading one of the Spanish army's Moorish battalions against the Berber uprising in Morocco, he suffered serious chest wounds. One of the leading planners for this campaign was Munoz Grandes' close associate,Colonel Francisco Franco...
...relationship begun in those broiling hot Moroccan military posts was tempered and strengthened through the Spanish Civil War. At its outbreak, Munoz Grandes was arrested by the Republicans and sentenced to death, but was released in a routine exchange of prisoners. He quickly joined Franco, was soon commanding a corps on the Pyrenees front. At the end of the war, Munoz Grandes, at Franco's behest, became secretary-general of the Fascist Falange, specifically to integrate the freewheeling Falangist militia into the Spanish army...
During World War 11, Munoz Grandes was the first commander of Spain's "Blue Division," which Franco sent to fight alongside the Germans on the Russian front; for bravery in action, Adolf Hitler personally awarded him the Iron Cross. After returning to Madrid, Munoz Grandes served in several army posts, played an important part in negotiating Spain's 1953 agreement to permit U.S. air bases on Spanish soil. In 1957 Franco promoted him to the rank of captain general (the Spanish equivalent of field marshal), the next year named him chief of the General Staff...
...Caudillo defeated the Republicans. You use the word Republicans to conceal the fact that Franco drove the Communists out of Spain and saved all Europe from Red occupation...
Using fallacious terms betrays your contemptible prejudice and bigotry against Spain and Franco. You can write nothing about this nation without smear and vilification. (THE REV.) WARREN C. LILLY, S.J. St. Luke's Catholic Church Lake Worth...