Word: gil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burgos, where General Mola has his headquarters, arrived the Spanish Catholic Party Leader José Maria Gil Robles, one of the main organizers of the Revolution against what he takes to be Marxism in Madrid and Anarchism in Barcelona. After conferring with General Mola he emerged to sound this 100% Catholic keynote: "I am with Spain, and Spain is here...
...north. There armies of 15,000 Loyalists under General Carlos Bernal and 20,000 Fascists under able General Emilio Mola sparred cautiously for the battle that may end the war. Surprise of the week was verification of the astounding story that when Spain's devious José Maria Gil Robles, Catholic reactionary, was Minister of War ten months ago, he and Fascist Generals Franco and Mola prepared for the present civil war by digging secret gun emplacements all along the Guadarrama ridge. Fortunately for Spain's Leftist Government, loyal officers knew where most of them were...
...Huerta & Calles which overthrew and assassinated President Carranza. Calles, a superb executive during his four years (1924-28) as President, built up a potent political machine. After Obregón's assassination in 1928 he could afford to put in a Presidential puppet, Emilio Fortes Gil, and invent the National Revolutionary Party, a tight Fascist organization with a highly Socialistic program of paper promises for the people. Calles and his henchmen unionized Mexican labor, attacked the Catholic Church, quietly amassed huge fortunes, trained an oversized army...
...crack down on the Left mobsters of the Socialist and Communist parties, whose 99 seats in the new Cortes, added to the 165 seats of his own Republican parties, give him his mandate. Nor could he use direct action against the powerful Right coalition of Catholic Leader Gil Robles without inviting civil war. He did, however, espouse the theory that the month's violence had been the work of Rightist agents provocateurs trying to make the victorious Left look bad. Then suddenly he discovered the perfect goat-Fascism...
...sickly-green-complexioned Don Manuel Azaña. The President of the Republic, uneasy old Don Niceto Alcála Zamora, was not in the least sure that the unexpected ballot victory of the Left might not enflame the Right's scheming would-be Dictator, Don Jose Maria Gil Robles, to attempt a coup d'etat...