Word: loyalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago the victorious Franco Government refused free departure to 17 Loyalist refugees lodged in the Chilean Embassy in Madrid. Chile, now governed by a Popular Front government, got very wroth, and Argentina, El Salvador, Venezuela, Cuba, Uruguay and Mexico joined in demanding that the Generalissimo respect the old Hispanic custom of the right of asylum. Unhispanic indeed sounded the humane statement of the Chilean Foreign Office on the matter: the right of asylum is not a matter of politics, simply a humanitarian principle to avoid useless reprisals. Last week in Santiago, Chile let it be known that victory...
...what could be more depraved than that now charged by Mr. Alfred Cope [TIME, June 19], administrator of the American Friends Service Committee, against General Franco? Mr. Cope says that six or seven shiploads of food intended for the starving children who are victims of the Totalitarian blockade of Loyalist Spain, were deliberately diverted by Franco to feed his army...
...Secret organization of Fascist supporters behind the Loyalist lines...
Relief. A greater tale of woe was brought back from Spain to the U. S. last week by Alfred Cope, regional director in southeastern Spain of the American Friends Service Committee, the Quaker relief organization. Mr. Cope believed that some 500,000 Loyalist supporters were in concentration camps; he thought that at least 70,000 Italian troops remained in Spain, despite stories of withdrawals; he told one story of 20,000 Loyalist troops imprisoned in a bullring in Ciudad Real for 20 days with little food and not much water...
...While the food lasted, moreover, the official orders in the clinic were that the children had to sing the Franco Nationalist songs before they were fed," said Mr. Cope. "We never asked them to sing Loyalist songs when the Loyalists held that territory, and we do not now like to ask them to sing Nationalist songs in thanksgiving for our food...