Word: llanos
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Still in command of the southern armies was hoarse-voiced General Queipo de Llano whose persistent personal broadcasts from Seville have been one of the high spots of the civil...
...Whites been stung northeast of Madrid, though they were getting an offensive under way from the south, that General Miaja doubtless feared the enemy would in exasperation use poison gas for the first time in Spain's present war. The White's blatant "Radio General" Queipo de Llano ominously broadcast that White Generalissimo Franco "has enormous supplies of gas, but will not use it, unless Madrid uses it first." In Moscow jubilant Izvestia cartooned an Italian general squealing from Spain to Mussolini for help. In Spain the Red Militia were coached to greet Italian deserters from the Whites...
With a soldier's contempt for the feelings of the Anarchist, Communist and assorted Marxist adherents of the Valencia Cabinet of Premier Largo Caballero in Spain last week, White Generalissimo Francisco Franco let his radiorating General Queipo de Llano appoint as Military Governor of Málaga, just captured from the Reds (TIME. Feb. 15), a soldierly Bourbon, the middle-aged Duke of Seville, onetime Colonel in the Spanish Infantry of King Alfonso XIII...
...Spain's civil war, seemed to be due to the fact that decisive in taking Málaga fortnight ago were Italian forces. These strangers not only lacked the local enthusiasm for Spanish fratricide but quietly did all they could to restrain the acts of General Queipo de Llano, though no one could restrain the words of Spain's hottest-headed "Radio General." By week's end the Spaniards tried, condemned and actually executed in Málaga numbered only 200, this first batch being mostly officers and men of Spain's pre-civil war regular...
...where dozens of our best friends were shot down like cattle-sometimes because they were Rightists, because they were Catholics, and sometimes because they were gentlemen and ladies. I have seen priests and nuns shot. Nobody was safe. When we finally saw the troops of General Queipo de Llano approaching it was the happiest moment of my life...