Word: salamanca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pretender Xavier, only 48, went bustling down from Paris to Salamanca "for the purpose of investing Franco as Regent" (i. e., as a Carlist Regent). After the Generalissimo and the Prince conferred, it was announced they had agreed "on the necessity of uniting all Spaniards worthy of the name on a basis of national and traditional principles...
Meantime, fruitless air bombings continued. Rightist planes bombed Valencia, killed 125 people including Arnold Crone, captain of a British freighter loading oranges in the harbor. In retaliation, Leftist planes again bombed Salamanca, Valladolid, Talavera. To end this senseless waste of good munitions and useless murder of civilians the Leftist Government proposed a truce on the bombing of any objective not in the area of combat by planes of either side...
Last summer in Salamanca, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's capital, workmen piled a double row of railway ties between the arches of a double colonnade that supports one side of the city's great Plaza Mayor, filled the intervening space with sand bags. This was to be a refugio against possible air raids. They took their time about it, for in over a year's warfare no Leftist planes had appeared over Salamanca. Leftist authorities had repeatedly promised that civilian centres would never be bombed by their planes. Nonetheless, Salamanca was surrounded by the very latest German anti...
Actually, only eight people were killed and damage was limited to a few narrow streets in the working class district. El Caudillo Franco's headquarters, the artillery general staff, the press and propaganda departments and the general staff headquarters are all within 100 yards of Salamanca's great ornate cathedral, one of the finest in Spain. Proof that the Leftist raid on Salamanca was not an isolated incident but represented a complete change in policy came quickly. In another Leftist raid, against blustering Queipo de Llano's private bailiwick, the city of Seville, five tons of bombs...
...General Franco, who is a married man, this may have proved embarrassing. At any rate while Edith Dahl has worked up in a few weeks from a Riviera night club to one in Paris, Whitey has remained in custody at Salamanca. Last week the General's headquarters announced that Airman Dahl's reprieve was not a pardon, as had been thought, carries with it an "automatic sentence to life imprisonment...