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Germany denies rumors of Danzig ultimatum to Poland
WASHINGTON, March 27.--A Federal Court of Appeals granted seven steel companies a temporary injunction today to prevent the government from enforcing labor standards provisions in connection with work done by the companies under government contract.
Clipper at Azores half hr ahead of schedule
Attack on Battery-Bklyn bridge proposal by Comr Moses
MADRID, Tuesday, March 28.-- The fall of Madrid to Generalissimo Francisco Franco appeared imminent early today.
1939Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.[†]
The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic and included socialists, anarchists, communists, and separatists. The opposing Nationalists who established the Spanish State were an alliance of fascist Falangists, monarchists, conservatives, and traditionalists supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and led by a military junta among whom General Francisco Franco quickly achieved a preponderant role. Due to the international political climate at the time, the war was variously viewed as class struggle, a religious struggle, or a struggle between dictatorship and republican democracy, between revolution and counterrevolution, or between fascism and communism. The Nationalists won the war, which ended in early 1939, and ruled Spain until Franco's death in November 1975.