Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With this program, General Franco found himself surrounded in Seville last week not only by his Spanish staff but by individuals in Spanish uniform who obviously were Italians and Germans. Hitherto bombing by planes of the Franco-Mola forces had been so inaccurate that in London, famed Hector Bywater could...
Held by the Revolution last week were all Spanish Morocco, the two largest Balearic Islands, whose political boss Juan March was contributing all the aid he could from Paris, and a great crescent- shaped swath of Spain swinging from Navarre around Madrid and down through Andalusia. The Government on the...
Paradoxically in Seville and its languorous province of Andalusia the Revolution found itself embarrassed by enthusiastic assumption on the part of the local populace that it stood for restoration of the Monarchy. In charge of Seville, Generalissimo Franco had put General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, an officer so...
In the north, still more paradoxically, General Mola, who served under several of King Alfonso's Cabinets and is supposed to have the most Monarchist leanings of any commander in the Revolution, continued his refusal to have anything to do with Alfonso XIII's heir Prince Juan, whom...
Planes of the Revolution bombed it nonetheless, and refugees said the Government forces promptly carried out the atrocity they had threatened, not wasting bullets, but hacking their victims and burning them on pyres. These were still smoking when Badajoz was finally stormed and breached by troops of the Revolution, who...