Word: tetuan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sunny Morocco, impatient wives and sweethearts of Moors fighting under Rightist Franco demonstrated at Tetuan, screaming: "We want our men back!" precipitated a bloody 24-hour riot put down by 130 executions. Meanwhile, the mere presence in the Balearics of Son Bruno Mussolini (TIME. Nov. 8) provoked so many bomb raids as Leftists tried to exterminate him, that last week Spanish Rightists were vastly relieved when Bomber Bruno flew back to Italy with part of his Fascist squadron...
...signs of rebellion in the Rebel ranks. From sources so many and so diverse that neutral observers like the New York Times, crack London Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall believed them came stones c widespread trouble among General Franco's men: In Spanish Morocco 30 officers of the Tetuan aircraft post were shot for conspiracy; at Malaga 20 Italian carabineers were lined up against a wall and at Algeciras a batch of non-commissioned Italians in the Pavia Regiment were mowed down for plotting General Franco's assassination...