Word: moscardos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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