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Soldier. Born in 1892 at El Ferrol, in Galicia, the son of a naval officer, Francisco Franco was given routine military education. He entered the military school at the Alcázar, Toledo, at 14, was graduated with a commission at 17, went soon after to Morocco. Even then Spain was fighting its interminable war with the Riffs. Adolescent Lieutenant Franco was wounded once, was decorated several times for bravery...
...construe in Herr Hitler's statement that Germany must "export or die" an invitation to commerce rather than war. Typical French move was a conference of high French Generals in Tunisia at which General Auguste Nogues, Resident General and Commander-in-Chief of all French Armed Forces in Morocco, presided...
...battle lines remained intact. A serious revolt of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's sympathizers was put down in Loyalist Cartagena and 30 Loyalist aviators escaped to Morocco in their planes. In their first manifesto members of the new Government even uttered bold words about "resisting to the utmost limit" and sinking or swimming together. But General Casado is an old-line career officer whose political attachments are much nearer to those of Generalissimo Franco than to Loyalist radicals. Moreover, prominent in the new junta is Julián Besteiro, former professor of logic at Madrid University, who months...
...been reported that France and Britain would seize the Island of Minorca, still held by the Loyalists, and might even march into Spanish Morocco if the Italians did not evacuate Spain at the war's end. Radical Socialists believed M. Daladier to have confirmed these reports when, underlining his words, he said to them: "It is characteristic that British and French warships are now cruising in the Mediterranean along the coast of Spanish Morocco as well as near the Balearic Islands...
...there were shrill demands-mainly from the Left-that France renounce the Spanish non-intervention policy and openly aid the Spanish Loyalists, just as Italy and Germany are openly helping the Rebels. The realistic French General Staff was reported to be contemplating occupying the Island of Minorca and Spanish Morocco if the Italian-backed Rebels win the war. There were scary rumors that the Rebel-held side of the French-Spanish frontier had been fortified. There were predictions that a Mediterranean "Munich," with Italy the victor and France the loser, was in the offing...