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From this early section the Journal jumps to 1832, when Delacroix accompanied a French diplomatic mission to Morocco. His notes on the most vivid adventure of his life are clipped, wholly objective, brilliantly businesslike, set down only to help him remember details of what he saw. Some of them are like a modern Imagist poem or a sketch for a cinema continuity: "The entrance to the castle: The Guardsmen in the court, the faÇade, the lane between two walls. At the end, under a sort of vault, men seated, making a brown silhouette against...
Brother Francisco had been under fire in Morocco at the age of 17, helped General Milan Astray form the Spanish Foreign Legion, and got his first working knowledge of fascism when he was picked by Dictator Primo de Rivera to act as liaison officer with the French in the Riff campaign of 1925. He won his brigadiership and the distinction of being the youngest general in Spain at the age of 34. When a military academy was established at Saragossa young Francisco Franco became its first director...
Following orders from the conspirators, Francisco Franco flew from the Canaries to Morocco, where he arrested and promptly shot Leftist sympathizers, and assumed the title of High Commissioner. Three days after the rebellion started its official leader, General Sanjurjo, was killed in an airplane accident over Lisbon. In the emergency, Francisco Franco, who had kept the revolution alive after its first setback by pouring in Moors and munitions from across the Straits of Gibraltar, became generalissimo in name as well as fact...
...voiced, bibulous General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, commander of the Rightist southern armies. Once such an ardent Republican that he was exiled by Alfonso XIII, Queipo de Llano quickly turned to fascism, was an active leader in the present civil war when Francisco Franco was still in Morocco. A violent self-advertiser, Queipo de Llano's frequent personal broadcasts have become one of the high spots of the war. When his language grows too indiscreet his own electricians sometimes cut him off the air but his broadcasts, always boasting great victories and threatening death & destruction...
After a day of dreamlike quiet in Madrid during which not a shot was heard another furious bombardment was launched in which correspondents counted a shell every ten seconds. Across the Straits of Gibraltar from Spanish Morocco, Generalissimo Franco rushed 14,000 more troops, some of them foreign volunteers and tatterdemalion striplings. In a few weeks he will sidetrack great numbers of troops to reap the July grain harvest if he wants his soldiers to have enough to eat this autumn...