Word: spain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surrender of the remaining one-fourth of Spain now in Loyalist hands was expected to come within a few days. After two years, seven months and one week of a bloody warfare which has caused untold destruction and led to the death of an estimated 1,000,000 persons the war was all but over...
Early this week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Britain and Premier Edouard Daladier of France announced that their Governments were simultaneously recognizing the regime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain and withdrawing recognition from the Loyalist Government of Premier Dr. Juan Negrin...
...French-British recognition of General Franco's Spain left only a handful of nations still recognizing the Loyalists, chief among which were Soviet Russia, China, Mexico, Cuba, the U. S. With the probable exception of the Soviet Union, they too were expected to change over promptly...
Whatever peace might mean to war-weary Spain, to the outside world the approaching end of the Spanish War was merely the signal for the beginning of a diplomatic tug of war between the European democracies and dictatorships. Germany and Italy believe they will exert more influence because they helped Rebel Spain win the war with men and munitions. France and Britain hope to get the new Spain into their camp by lending her money...
...flattering requests from France and Britain that the Generalissimo declare a general amnesty; and to French and British hopes that Spain would remain "independent," Francisco Franco snapped: "The admiration for me expressed by neighboring democracies today leaves me as indifferent as the abuse they heaped on me yesterday...