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Captain Charles William Henry "Cecil" Bebb (27 September 1905〔("Those fabulous flying years: joy-riding and flying circuses between the wars", Colin Cruddas, pg. 107 )〕 – 2002〔England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2006〕) was a freelance pilot who flew General Francisco Franco from the Canary Islands to Spanish Morocco in 1936, a journey which was to trigger the onset of the Spanish Civil War.〔 *(Article by David Mathieson at www.guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 18 July 2006 ) Retrieved March 6, 2010〕 ==Events of July 1936== At 07.15 on the morning of 11 July 1936, Captain Bebb took off from Croydon Airport, London, in a Dragon Rapide aircraft, with a navigator, his friend Major Hugh Pollard, and two female companions. The flight log records that the aircraft was bound for the Canary Islands. The purpose of Bebb's flight was to collect General Franco from the Canaries and fly him to Tetuán in Spanish Morocco, at that time a Spanish colony, where the Spanish African Army was garrisoned. Franco was recognized by the government in Madrid as a danger to the Second Spanish Republic and had been sent to the Canaries in order to keep him away from political intrigue. Had a Spanish plane flown to the islands, the authorities would likely have been alerted, but the British aircraft attracted little or no attention. Bebb and Franco arrived in Tetuán on 19 July and the general quickly set about organising Moroccan troops to participate in the coming coup. It is possible that British security services may have been complicit in Bebb's flight. Certainly his companion Pollard had previously been an intelligence agent.〔(Alpert, Michael, p.18, ''A New International History of the Spanish Civil War'' ) Retrieved January 2012〕 The flight itself was planned over lunch at Simpson's in the Strand, where Douglas Francis Jerrold, the conservative Roman Catholic editor of the ''English Review'', met with the journalist Luis Bolín, London correspondent of the ''ABC Newspaper'' and later Franco's senior press advisor. Jerrold then persuaded Pollard to join the enterprise, and Pollard in turn recruited Bebb as pilot, plus his daughter Diana, and a friend, as "cover".〔 *(article on randompottins blog ) Retrieved March 6, 2010〕 It is not clear how much or to what level the British government knew about the activities of the secret services in aiding Franco. In any event Britain remained officially neutral throughout the duration of the Spanish Civil War, although volunteers from the British Isles fought for both sides.〔 *(Article on Major Hugh Bertie Campbell Pollard at http://journals.cambridge.org ) Retrieved March 6, 2010〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cecil Bebb」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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