Word: generalissimoing
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...From his post as Ambassador to dying Loyalist Spain the President recalled Claude Gernade Bowers, to consult about recognizing Generalissimo Franco's regime. To Moscow, to replace Joseph Edward
...battle lines remained intact. A serious revolt of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's sympathizers was put down in Loyalist Cartagena and 30 Loyalist aviators escaped to Morocco in their planes. In their first manifesto members of the new Government even uttered bold words about "resisting to the utmost limit" and sinking or swimming together. But General Casado is an old-line career officer whose political attachments are much nearer to those of Generalissimo Franco than to Loyalist radicals. Moreover, prominent in the new junta is Julián Besteiro, former professor of logic at Madrid University, who months...
Last week Generalissimo Franco was reported from Paris as planning to become the non-political head of the State, naming his wife's reportedly pro-Nazi brother-in-law, Ramón Serrano Suńer, as the political head...
...flattering requests from France and Britain that the Generalissimo declare a general amnesty; and to French and British hopes that Spain would remain "independent," Francisco Franco snapped: "The admiration for me expressed by neighboring democracies today leaves me as indifferent as the abuse they heaped on me yesterday...
Barcelona, conquered month ago by the Rebel Armies, was last week given its first look since the beginning of the war at the No. 1 Rebel, Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Early one morning a 21-gun salute roared out from Montjuich fortress as Generalissimo Franco, accompanied by his Moorish guard, motored into the centre of the city. Taking his place on a stand on Barcelona's large and battered Via Diagonal, now appropriately renamed Avenida del Caudillo (Avenue of the Chief) for El Caudillo Franco, the Generalissimo reviewed units of the seven Army corps that had taken part...