Word: moscardo
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...week's end the Falangists gathered in the throne room of Segovia's Alcazar: a mere 300 Blue Shirts, a few army officers-some wearing the German Iron Cross-and three former army chaplains. Presiding was General Moscardo, defender of Toledo's Alcazar. At night the Falangists paraded Segovia's floodlighted streets, singing songs and shouting Falange slogans...
Encircled and under bombardment, Colonel Jose Moscardo, heroic defender of Toledo's Alcazar in Spain's Civil War, still refused to surrender his fortress to the Loyalists. To break him down, the Loyalists forced his son Luis, a prisoner, to speak to him by telephone across the lines...
...Loyalists shot young Moscardo...
...height of the revolt, the general, learning that his son had been ordered to the capital, demanded by radio whether the government meant "to repeat the terrible situation in which Spanish Republicans put Colonel Moscardo." The government in La Paz, whose transfer of young Lieut. Calleja had been wholly routine, saw a chance to put itself in a chivalrous light. It radioed the rebel general that his son would be sent to him in the safekeeping of the Brazilian military attache...
...been pounded to jagged chunks. Never could even superbly trained West Pointers have thus held out had not much of the Toledo Fortress been hewn out of living rock and its enormous cellars kept fully stocked with food, wine and munitions by Commandant Moscardo...
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