Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wild churning wave of soldiers and civilians, rushing for the border, rolled before them. Veterans of Belchite, Teruel, the Ebro campaigns carried their rifles, hauled machine guns and field pieces, even drove tanks up to the frontier, where they were confiscated. They were determined not to let General Franco capture any war weapons. At one point alone 4,000 were crossing the French border every hour. At another point a Loyalist Army band played patriotic Spanish airs while the bedraggled and defeated army crossed into France. Of the 200,000 men left in the Loyalist Army. 150,000 were expected...
...only at the last moment that the French Government, after debating all week what to do and after failing to persuade Generalissimo Franco to agree either to setting up a neutral zone or to declaring a general amnesty, decided to open the French border not only to the fleeing army but to as many civilians as cared to enter. Probably what helped France make up her mind was the thought of what might have happened had the frontier been kept sealed. The Loyalist Army might well have decided to make a suicidal last stand on the border. Both a massacre...
...Valencia. They had nothing to gain by surrendering, little to lose personally by fighting. The Madrid-Valencia area could not be expected to hold out long against a full-bodied Franco attack, but in the meanwhile the world situation might change. The Loyalists still had some money. And a general European war between the Fascist and democratic powers could still save their cause...
...finally installed in Spain. Particularly did Minister Alvarez del Vayo want to make sure that the art would not fall into Italy's or Germany's hands. Finally, Generalissimo Francisco Franco was implored not to bomb the roads over which the-treasures were being moved. The General's aviators, who have never hesitated to blast women and children, complied. Directors of the Paris Louvre and the London National Gallery accompanied the paintings on their way to final safety...
Said he: "It is no use to embark on discussions with a view to general settlement of differences, satisfaction of aspirations and removal of grievances unless those who come to the table are all convinced that all those who sit around it want a peaceable settlement and have no sinister idea in their minds. I say, therefore, that what we want to see is not only words which indicate a desire for peace but-before we can enter upon that final settlement -we shall want to see some concrete evidence of a willingness, let us say, to enter into arrangements...