Word: spain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sided against Franco in Spain...
...Generalissimo Francisco Franco had definitely thrown in his lot with the Dictators: had signed up with Germany, Italy, Hungary and Japan in the anti-Comintern Pact. For the French Government this was a severe defeat. Before recognizing Franco's Government France had tried to get a promise that Spain would not sign the anti-Comintern Pact. Failing that, France had sent her most distinguished soldier, Marshal Philippe Petain, as Ambassador to Burgos to deal gently and well with the Spanish soldier-dictator. Moreover, the Spanish War was now over and not only had II Duce not withdrawn his troops...
ROME--Official communiques announced today that Premier Benito Mussolini had conferred with Gen. Gaetone Gambara on a date for withdrawal of Italian troops from Spain and that Italy had given assurances of friendship to Greece --thus attacking the two principal obstacles to Anglo-Italian friendship...
...Woodbury Lowery fellowships for research in historical archives, preferably those relating to American History in the archives of foreign countries and more particularly in Spain, for the first half year were given to William L. Langer, Coolidge Professor of History, and Claude T. Richards 4G of Salt Lake Cite, Utah...
...crimes" arrived in Madrid soon after Franco's troops. An 8 p. m. curfew was clamped down; in many a Spanish home the knock of the secret police was momentarily expected and feared. Far from forgetting the Loyalist excesses of the last two-and-a-half years, Nationalist Spain was in a mood for wholesale reprisal and punishment. The new Government's authorities claimed that 250,000 of their sympathizers had been murdered by the Loyalists; they wanted "justice" in each case...