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...White Generalissimo Francisco Franco's "Silver Falcons of Death" last week swooped silently over Madrid and for the first time since Spain's civil war began the capital, with its refugee-swollen population of 1,500,000, cowered and shuddered beneath the impact of live bombs. So sudden was this first attack that there was no time to sound air-raid warnings, and before thousands of pedestrians and motorists on the streets could be herded indoors, the skies were raining shrapnel. Over 125 were killed, including 70 children playing in the grounds of a schoolhouse. Three Bombs fell...
Women dashed through the streets, waving market baskets, taking part in a drive to enlist men who had failed to go to the front. At week's end came the first daytime air raid on the capital. Under orders from White Generalissimo Francisco Franco no effort was made to drop heavy bombs. White aviators contented themselves with cutting didos in the air, ripping off belts of machine gun bullets at the sidewalks of Madrid. When the planes had gone and the racket ceased the streets were dotted white with leaflets calling on Madrid to surrender before the real hell...
...trained, ill-disciplined shoemakers, cabdrivers and waiters who were only prevented from scattering in despair by their officers standing behind them with cocked firearms. At San Martín-de-Val de Inglesias, 7,000 Reds vainly attempted to repulse 1,000 Whites, made it easy for White Generalissimo Francisco Franco's armies to resume their march on Madrid...
Sloe-eyed, soft-spoken Generalissimo Francisco Franco of the White Armies, realizing the difficulty of moving on Madrid through the Guadarrama Mountains of the North, transferred his headquarters within easier distance of the main line from Toledo to Madrid. Government troops, disorganized and poorly led, made brave counter-attacks that got nowhere, abandoned well-constructed trenches for villages impossible to hold, were shot down in their tracks while retreating, and occasionally deserted in groups...
Getting into an airplane, the Generalissimo then flew over Madrid and on to Burgos, the North headquarters of the Whites. With the Capital almost encircled, it was time for White "Provisional President" General Miguel Cabanellas to hand over his trappings of authority to the prospective White Dictator. Drawing a sword and flourishing it over Generalissimo Franco as though knighting him, the snowy-bearded "Provisional President" exclaimed: "General Franco, in the name of the Lord, and by the will of the Spanish People, I hand over to you full power over The Spanish State...