Word: bilbao
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...object of the drive on Teruel was to pull down the full force of Franco's armies on Leftist heads, it succeeded last week beyond measure. With his toughest general, Miguel (siege of Oviedo) Aranda, and his ablest General, Jose Fidel (capture of Bilbao) Davila, leading the counterattack, El Caudillo himself reportedly took charge of the campaign from field headquarters 75 miles northwest at Calatayud...
...anyone but the Associated Press. Long-time a Manhattan sports writer, he won a medal and the title Commendatore from Marshal Badoglio in Ethiopia, went on night raids with Arab sharpshooters in Palestine, reported King George's Coronation, and scooped the world on the Rightist capture of Bilbao by filing his story under fire...
...gold flag of Rightist Spain went up on the Spanish legation at Tokyo last week, symbol of official recognition of the Franco Regime by the Japanese Government. The U. S. State Department moved three weeks ago to have the U. S. consulate in Rightist Bilbao reopened by Mr. W. E. Chapman, who has been promoted from Consul to Second Secretary of Embassy, a diplomatic rank, since the consulate was closed six months ago. Last week Senor Antonio San Groniz, protocol officer to Rightist Generalissimo Franco, stated that upon reopening of the U. S. consulate "we would not infer that...
...flags of surrender, most of them rudely made from bed sheets. Regardless of their political opinions, crowds on the streets cheered with enthusiasm. For them Gijón's surrender meant an end of bombs and shellfire, most of all it meant food. Even before the fall of Bilbao, Generalissimo Franco discovered that food, of which his part of Spain has plenty, was the best Rightist propaganda he could use. So last week trucks loaded with bread, sausages, corn and rice started rolling toward Gijón from Vitoria and Burgos even before the Rightist requetés entered...
...Spanish troops alone. At least one foreign correspondent could not find a single cauldron of spaghetti among the rice pots of the Rightists, or a single Italian battalion among the advancing columns.* This was sound Franco tactics. Immediately after the Rightists' formal entries into Málaga, Bilbao, Santander (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.), Italian officers went about making chests to the vast annoyance of their Spanish allies. Today Franco likes to keep Italians out of the headlines as much as possible and Mussolini is willing...