Word: generalissimo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week began, the armies of Generalissimo Francisco Franco moved on Barcelona from three sides...
Meanwhile, Generalissimo Franco set up a council to govern Barcelona Province when and if it were taken. He named the Count of Montseny Mila y Camps, a Catalan, as the council's president. Reviewing the offensive before a meeting of his Ministers, the Generalissimo called upon all his Spaniards to contribute money for the reestablishment of normal conditions in the captured area...
...With Generalissimo Francisco Franco's troops edging nearer to Barcelona, France last week began to jitter over the probability of a Fascist victory on her southern frontier. In the Chamber of Deputies there were shrill demands-mainly from the Left-that France renounce the Spanish non-intervention policy and openly aid the Spanish Loyalists, just as Italy and Germany are openly helping the Rebels. The realistic French General Staff was reported to be contemplating occupying the Island of Minorca and Spanish Morocco if the Italian-backed Rebels win the war. There were scary rumors that the Rebel-held side...
...help from Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo, of the Loyalist Government. As the lengthy debate neared its end, M. Bonnet was expected to play his trump card: an assurance by Dictator Mussolini, given to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in Rome fortnight ago, that as soon as Generalissimo Franco won the war, Italian troops would leave Spain. Since Il Duce has often found it convenient to forget his solemn pledges, this argument was not calculated to impress the French Left. The Government was slated for a rough time in the Chamber before a final vote is taken this week...
...Generalissimo Francisco Franco's guns blasting a path into the city filled Barcelona with a constant rumble, drowned out at hourly intervals by his bombers which swept upon the city in relays and took and estimated 100 casualties in 12 raids...