Word: salamanca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From Salamanca, Franco's raucous-voiced "Radio General" Queipo de Llano, with his usual indiscretion, roared over the radio: "France's day of reckoning is not far off. . . . She has always been a bad neighbor and always acted against Spanish interests...
...Loyalist Spain translated this as an admission that the potent Rightist assault against Madrid of fortnight ago had broken down. For many weeks they have been aware that the Italian and German advisers of Generalissimo Franco, gathering daily in the heavily guarded headquarters directly opposite the west door of Salamanca Cathedral, have advocated two different plans of campaign for the remainder of the summer. Basically the German scheme was to immunize every front but Madrid, try to lure the Leftists into one more half baked offensive, always fruitful of casualties, and then mass every available man from Malaga...
Last week Rightist air fighters shot down the Leftist plane of Pilot Dahl who descended by parachute unhurt, was conducted to Rightist headquarters at Salamanca and readily told the above story. Its main lines were soon confirmed to Cannes reporters by Mrs. Dahl who begged U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt to intercede for her husband's release...
...equipment, took some-what more interest last week as the "Battle of Madrid" (TIME, July 26) grew to an extremely desperate conflict between roughly 100,000 Leftists and 100,000 Rightists-not "big stuff" by World War standards, but biggish. Hitherto Rightist General Francisco Franco has mostly remained at Salamanca, his capital, filling the role of Rightist Spain's President, but last week he hurried to field headquarters. There, rubbing his hands with a satisfaction at least well simulated, General Franco remarked that the Spanish Leftists seemed to have committed the "almost unbelievable blunder" of persisting in efforts...
...Valencia Government did what it could last week to relieve pressure on Bilbao. It kept the Aragon front crackling with action. Against Cordoba in the south a major drive was started. For the first time in weeks Leftist planes bombed the outskirts of Salamanca, field headquarters of Generalissimo Franco...