Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Bell Tolls is 1) a great Hemingway love story; 2) a tense story of adventure in war; 3) a grave and sombre tragedy of Spanish peasants fighting for their lives. But above all it is about death. The plot is simple, about a bridge over a deep gorge behind Franco's lines. Robert Jordan, a young American International Brigader, is ordered to blow up the bridge. He must get help from the guerrillas who live in Franco's territory. The bridge must be destroyed at the precise moment when a big Loyalist offensive begins. If the bridge...
Many things happened during the 19 days that Generalissimo Francisco Franco's big-shot brother-in-law, RamÓn Serrano Suner, spent in Berlin and Rome. Japan joined the Axis. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini made grandiose plans to conquer much of the world. The war moved toward the Mediterranean, which Don RamÓn's country bounds on the west (see p. 34). And Don RamÓn Serrano Suner, Minister of Government and leader of Spain's dominant Falangist Party, saw many interesting sights and talked to many important people, including Adolf Hitler...
...Defender of Islam. This was nonsense. Spaniards and Moslems have been enemies since the 8th Century. The talk about an Arab revolt was designed either to cover a real Axis plan involving Spain or to conceal the failure of the Axis and El Cunadissimo to sell Brother-in-Law Franco...
Francisco Franco has neither the will nor the power to deny German troops passage through his peninsula, especially since it was announced this week that Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler would soon pay a visit to Spain. But since Spain has not enough food to feed Spaniards, much less a German Army, it is doubtful whether the Axis will try to storm Gibraltar until it thinks the job can be done quickly. And when Generalissimo Franco hears the count of nine over Britain, Spain will jump into the ring...
...both inside and outside the Catholic Church. The Jesuits have been suppressed, at one time or another, in nearly every nation in which they have labored. Under political pressure from Spain, Portugal and France, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the order in 1773. Pius VII revived it in 1814. Under Franco and Petain the Jesuits have been freed from decrees aimed against them by Republican Spain and France. Last January they were given permission to enter Greece for the first time since the 17th Century. Only country which now formally bars them is Switzerland...