Word: miguel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...siege was ending its 14th month, but in this case the roles were reversed. At Oviedo, once a city of 70,000 people, a Rightist garrison was still holding out against a circling force of Asturian miners who have sworn to capture and kill Oviedo's commander, General Miguel Aranda "if we have to get him over the dead bodies of our own children...
...best hated men in Spain. Miguel Aranda first came to Oviedo in 1934 with the rank of colonel and orders from Madrid to help put down a revolution of Asturian socialists and anarchists against what they saw to be a swiftly developing fascist dictatorship. With ruthless Foreign Legionaries and Moors, imported into Spain for the first time in its history, Aranda did his work well, causing the death of numberless men in a few weeks...
Just before the beginning of the present war Miguel Aranda was in Madrid but he hustled back to Oviedo on orders from General Franco, took over the garrison of 2,000 men and seized the city. Ruthless Miguel Aranda may be, an able officer he certainly is. Spurred on by personal hatred for Aranda, forces of 8,000 and 10,000 men have besieged Oviedo, furrowing its streets and battering its houses with as many as 3,000 shells a day-while the Asturians still had munitions. For many weeks the city and its garrison were entirely cut off, every...
...raiders. Before French harbor police had been able to come out to investigate the row the subernappers had escaped, taking Commander Ferrando with them as hostage. At Bélin near Bordeaux French police captured one of their two escaping cars, interned the lot. Among them was Miguel Juan Las Heras, Commander of the C4. Immediately it became apparent that Commander Ferrando had not been kidnapped under great duress. To reporters he said...
...Salamanca the general reply to any and all inquiries about the State's affairs is that the Generalissimo will have to be consulted. However, El Caudillo has given a career diplomat, Miguel A. Muguiro, the title of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Brother Nicolas Franco, who is nominally General Secretary of the Nationalist Government but actually Right Spain's Premier, is apparently the only man in the Government who could be considered as an administrative assistant to the dictator. His duties are vague but his prestige is considerable...