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...valor. In the south, through Córdoba and Toledo, the Franco main armies were reported advancing, meeting with no resistance. At Valencia it was reported that Loyalist troops had been ordered to withdraw without risking further bloodshed. All that seemed to remain was Franco's own triumphal entry into Madrid and the mopping up of the south, a procedure that in Catelonia required only a few weeks following the collapse of Barcelona...
...Austria in 1934 and was blocked by Benito Mussolini. The speed, precision and preparation with which Adolf Hitler moves should no longer surprise the world. But last week he outdid himself. The four familiar steps of a Hitler conquest-preliminary propaganda, conference with victims, march of troops, and triumphal entry-followed each other like the rapid fire of a machine gun. His culminating campaign in Czecho-Slovakia lasted exactly three days...
...over icy roads through Sudeten villages and Czech towns to Prague. There he had an emperor's triumph exactly eight hours after the arrival of his vanguard, exactly 25 hours after having summoned Dr. Hacha to Berlin, exactly one year and a day to the hour after his triumphal entry into Vienna after Anschluss...
Just before leaving Prague, Herr Hitler wired his army: CONGRATULATIONS ON RESTORING PEACE AND ORDER IN BOHEMIA IN SPITE OF INCLEMENT WEATHER. Continuing his triumphal tour, Herr Hitler drove...
...Triumphal Entry...