Word: davila
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against this is the National Peasant Party of idealistic Professor Juliu Maniu. One of his leading associates, Charles A. Davila, who was Rumanian Minister to the U. S. for eight years ending last December, burst out last week in Manhattan. Mr. Davila accused the present Rumanian Premier, the Orthodox Patriarch Miron Cristea, of being at heart just as anti-Semitic as the squelched Iron Guard, with the only difference that he consents to act as puppet for Carol II. The National Peasant Party, Mr. Davila declared, is "backed by the overwhelming majority of the people against the Court camarilla...
General José Fidel Davila, Defense Minister in the new Rightist Cabinet (see p. 17), ended a fortnight of cautious inaction on the Teruel front, launched an offensive 25 miles north of Teruel which this week swept forward at least 18 miles. In the ominous calm which preceded this fresh blast in Spain's storm, Britain's lanky No. 1 commentator on military affairs, famed Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart, leaned back in a London armchair last week, pondered, then wrote his professional opinion-thoughtful if iffy-on the next six months of Spain's civil...
Defense: General José Fidel Davila, successor to General Emilio Mola on the Basque front. Heading the three services under him will be General Luis Orgaz for the Army; Joaquin Cervera, the son of famed Admiral Pascual Cervera (Santiago Bay) for the Navy; General Kindelan for the Air Force...
...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...
...point of fact, the Italians, although the most numerous of Franco's foreign allies, formed only one of the three columns that closed in on starving Santander. The other two columns consisted of Navarre royalists. Moors and regular cavalry, all under command of Spanish General Jose Fidel Davila. successor on the Basque front to the ablest of all Rightist commanders, the late General Emilio Mola...