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Spain is marking the 80th anniversary of the end of its civil war. It marked the beginning of Francisco Franco's fascist dictatorship, which lasted until his death in 1975.
The newspapers kept us reminded of an opera-bouffe war that was going on, and now and then there came information of delicate and troublesome diplomatic duties for our minister to Spain.
Spanish artist Eugenio Merino and a U.S. art collective used a lifelike replica of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's head ...
Before long, in both Spain and the U.S., the Spanish Civil War would be talked about not so much as an early battle of the anti-fascist World War II, but rather as a chapter in the annals of ...
That no simple civil war of two Spains, Leftists and Rightists, is being fought, made itself clear again last week as some other Spains became active afresh, ... SPAIN: Everybody’s War.
The Spanish Civil War began when Gen. Francisco Franco was flown from the Canary Islands, where he was the military governor, to Spanish Morocco where he led a rebellion against the elected ...
One evening two years ago a bored United Press night man in Paris picked up a buzzing telephone to hear his London office calling. “Our subscription call from Spain hasn’t come through ...
Spain ceded Gibraltar to Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht but the story behind it involves dynastic wars, crumbling ...
It’s a question with new relevance: What would you do to stop the rise of fascism? In the summer of 1936, the newest fascist threat was represented by Gen. Francisco Franco, who was leading an ...
The war has confirmed some theories in this direction, and the tendency to educate all combatants, especially officers, in machinery, or what is better, in engineering. will doubtless be accelerated.
Try a civil war of paint between the colors of Real Madrid and Barcelona. At the front of the canvas, a sharp angle of money bills, while in the background, sketches of Spain, drying and fading.
Congress approved President McKinley's request for a declaration of war on April 25, 1898; yet the Spanish-American War was the culmination of decades of pressure toward U.S. expansionism.