Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warsaw for a four-day conference on "military coordination" went Britain's tallest, heaviest Army officer-Sir Edmund Ironside, Inspector General of the British Overseas Forces. His host was the tall, thin, handsome Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, Inspector General of the Polish Army. Weighing 252 pounds and standing six feet four inches, General Sir Edmund has been nicknamed "Tiny" by his men. More aptly, the Poles called him the "Iron General" and greeted him with cries of "Bravo Iron...
Last week celebrations all over Spain reminded Spaniards that three years had passed since General Franco flew from the Canary Islands to Morocco to launch the Civil War. The anniversary of the revolt was a bright, cool day that ended a heat wave. At the lunch hour, factory workers listened to the reading of decrees announcing a "fiesta for the exaltation of labor" and promising wages high enough to give the "humble classes" access to culture. All over Spain there were prayers and parades, masses and mass meetings, chants and cheers for Francisco Franco; all over Spain there were uniforms...
...plain that old Spaniards were still trying to run the show. Through 32 months of war and four months of peace, the same pre-war figures kept control of the State and the Army. No new military reputations were made on the Nationalist side of the war. Colorless, efficient General Franco was a familiar face in Spain long before the war, as were Generals Yague, Gómez Jordana, Aranda, Queipo de Llano, most of the old-line Monarchists, officeholders, Fascists, conservative Republicans who backed General Franco's revolt, grabbed posts in his Government. But Spain had changed more...
Behind flights, arrests, rumors, was the fight of the Falange and the Army, a conflict older than the peace. During the war, General Franco merged 3,000,000 Falangists-extreme Fascists-and 800,000 Carlists-conservative monarchists-into the Falange Espanola Tradicionalista de los Jons, a top-heavy Fascist party modeled on those of Italy and Germany. Reorganized, cleaned out, it had 1,700,000 rank & file members and 20,000 "militant members" made up of Generalissimo Franco's general staff, commissioned and non-commissioned officers in his Army, hand-picked pro-Franco members of the Falange...
...record included an escape from Madrid's Model Prison, a trip to Germany to be feted by Nazis. But in the 18 months that he has been Minister of the Interior, Senor Serrano has outshone his plodding, unimaginative brother-in-law, stolen the show from the Spanish Generals whom he accompanied on a trip to Rome, become the leading figure of the Falangists. Ardently pro-Nazi, contemptuous of conservatives who see no point in scaring off possible British financial aid, he has boasted that Gibraltar would soon be returned to Spain, was more in evidence at receptions for Count...