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Both France and England stroked the little Generalissimo's mailed fist by trying to persuade the Loyalists that further fighting was useless, that they had just as well yield the remainder of Spain without further bloodshed. They even threatened to recognize Rebel Spain as the only legal Spanish Government, which would mean withdrawing recognition simultaneously from Loyalist Spain. This would give Generalissimo Franco the legal international right of starving out the Loyalists even if he could not conquer them. Illegally he is already doing just that. Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's Eire Government jumped...
...since Munich, however, has the British Empire been so obliging as when it arranged last week to hand over to Generalissimo Franco the Island of Minorca, one of the choicest of Mediterranean strategic plots. Lying athwart the French line of sea communications to North Africa and not far from the British Mediterranean "lifeline" to the East, Minorca was so strongly fortified (by British guns before the war) that the Loyalists had held on to the island since the war's start despite attacks by the Rebel Navy and Italian ships and planes. Nearby Majorca, bigger but not stronger...
That Italy was anything but happy over this British intervention in the war was evident from Italian newspapers, which warned Britain that it was now too late to be nice to Generalissimo Franco. A more direct sign of displeasure came when Rebel bombers raided Port Mahon while the Devonshire was still in the harbor, dropping their cargoes so near the cruiser that the crew manned her anti-aircraft guns. Not much more reassuring for the British was a Rebel version of the Minorca surrender which ungratefully toned down Britain's "good offices," trumped up a tale about a brief...
Whether Rebel Spain would prove to be grateful or not, whether the Generalissimo would choose in the future to remember his old friends in Italy and Germany rather than take up with his new ones in Britain and France, little Francisco Franco last week had more powerful friends than any other chief of state on earth...
...village of Puigcerda, crossed into France and closed the last gate to northern Loyalist Spain behind them. A few fanatical anarchists committed suicide by staying behind and fighting the Insurgents to the end, but at exactly 2:40 p. m. Friday, Feb. 10, a handful of Rebel troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco nailed their red & gold banner to a telegraph pole at the edge of the rock-bedded river which separates Puigcerda from the French border village of Bourg-Madame. All of Catalonia was theirs. On the other side of the river, less than 500 yards away, several thousand Loyalist...