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...sound that gave Europe the "Hitler jitters" was the tramp of marching Fascists in Barcelona. Despite the official assumption in France and Britain that the triumph of Generalissimo Francisco Franco constituted no danger for them, there were facts that could not be disguised. Italian troops are still in Spain. Italy occupies lock, stock and barrel the strategic Island of Majorca. German guns back of Algeciras dominate Gibraltar, are able at any time to threaten Britain's Mediterranean "lifeline." Both France and England would have much to fear from German submarine bases on Spain's northwest coast, four...
...Italy, Dictator Mussolini left no doubt in anybody's mind that Barcelona's fall was a Fascist triumph and a French defeat. Prominently published was a wire from Generalissimo Franco: "I am grateful for the brilliant effort of the Italian troops who will receive the laurel of triumph with their Spanish comrades in Barcelona. . . . As General and a Spaniard, I am proud to number among my troops the magnificent [Italian] blackshirts...
...armies of Rebel Generalissimo Francisco Franco marched up to Barcelona on three sides last week and, with no more than a sniper's fusillade, the biggest city in Spain fell. No European military action comparable to it had taken place since the Prussians took Paris in 1871, and, according to all calculations, the Spanish Rebels like the Prussians, had won their...
Japan has long delayed naming a supreme puppet government for all her conquered territory in China for the simple reason that no respected top-flight Chinese leader is willing to head it. The most respected Chinese figure not fighting on the side of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is China's oldtime warlord General Wu Pei-fu, once master of middle China before the Generalissimo deposed him in 1926. He is respected for his eccentricity (he is followed wherever he goes by a faithful spittoon-bearer) and because he is as wily as Ulysses. Some time ago he was reported...
LONDON-Spanish Insurgent headquarters at Salamanca tonight broadcast an official announcement that Generalissimo Francisco Franco's advance columns had captured Blanes, the first town in Gerona Province to fall to the Nationalists...