Word: rdoba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether or not surrender was the best means of salvation, it was the better part of valor. In the south, through Córdoba and Toledo, the Franco main armies were reported advancing, meeting with no resistance. At Valencia it was reported that Loyalist troops had been ordered to withdraw without risking further bloodshed. All that seemed to remain was Franco's own triumphal entry into Madrid and the mopping up of the south, a procedure that in Catelonia required only a few weeks following the collapse of Barcelona...
Front No. 5, Córdoba itself is protected by formal lines of trenches almost as strong as those at Madrid, quiescent for many weeks, and this silence extends over the high peaks of the Sierra Nevadas to the sea, where there has been no effective action since the capture of Málaga seven months ago. All this line is under control of el Caudillo Franco's most colorful subordinate, hoarse-voiced bombastic General Queipo de Llano, the "radio general...
...finally been released from jail in an exchange of prisoners. From his headquarters at Seville came a story of an attempt to kidnap the radio general himself. Weeks ago General Queipo de Llano set out on an inspection trip of the lines north of Córdoba. Entranced by his ceaseless flow of conversation, staff officers did not notice until almost too late that the chauffeur had put on a sudden burst of speed, was heading straight for the Leftist lines. A quick revolver shot in the back killed the chauffeur, ended the attempt. The party drove back to headquarters...
...unarmed civilians. In this war, since the middle of November, they have been beaten at the Parque del Oeste, they have been beaten at the Pardo, they have been beaten at Carabanchel, they have been beaten on the Jarama. they have been beaten at Brihuega and at Córdoba, and they are being fought to a standstill at Bilbao. Every time they are beaten in the field they salvage that strange thing they call their honor, by murdering civilians...
...authorities canceled a Mardi Gras celebration that would have brought thousands more Catholics into town. Veracruz's youthful new Governor Miguel Alemán was so besieged during a visit to the Orizaba city hall that he slipped out a side door and made for nearby Córdoba. Apparently to stall for time, State spokesmen falsely reported that the Legislature was willing to let the opened churches stay open. When Governor Alemán cracked out a denial of this, President Cárdenas ordered his Department of the Interior to investigate the entire affair. Upshot seemed...