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...this Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco broke off diplomatic relations with Chile. The Spanish Foreign Ministry called Chile's Popular Front Government "anarchical" and declared that on June 17 "in the most central square in Chile . . . orators had the vileness grievously to insult Spain and its glorious Caudillo in a speech broadcast by the official radio and at which were present the President of the Republic and several Ministers...
...readers, inflicted with slanted news reports, "subtle" editorializing and carefully selected stories, are beginning to react in the approved manner. It must be a great source of personal satisfaction to the editors of TIME to realize that they are using a powerful instrument to prime the people for a "glorious struggle" to "save Democracy" . . . again...
...Adolf Hitler as he stepped out of the car stood France's monument to Alsace-Lorraine. German war flags covered the sculptured sword thrust into a limp German eagle. Swastika banners hid the inscription beneath: To the Heroic Soldiers of France, Defenders of the Country and of Right, Glorious Liberators of Alsace-Lorraine...
...historic Compiégne Forest has been chosen for the handing over of these conditions, then it was done in order, once and for all, through this act of just retribution, to eradicate the memory which was not a glorious page of French history and was felt by the German people to be the deepest shame of all times. France has been beaten in a series of bloody battles, after heroic resistance, and has collapsed...
Personnel. The High Command of those glorious arms was announced by First Marshal Mussolini: Chief of the General Staff - Marshal Pietro Badoglio...