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...last month the Falange Española's newsorgan Arriba whipped out a jingo editorial announcing that Spain was no longer neutral but nonbelligerent. A few days later Generalissimo Francisco Franco officially embraced this policy, laid claim to Gibraltar and an unspecified piece of North Africa. Last week Arriba again applied the point of a pin to El Caudillo's chubby behind. Producing a brand-new term to baffle international lawyers, Arriba declared that Spain was now a "moral belligerent...
...four papers remaining in Madrid, the morning Arriba and the evening Madrid are official organs of Serrano Suñer's Falangists. The other two, Ya (morning) and Informaciones (evening), are under editors named by the Government, which means by the Minister of the Interior, Franco's strong-man brother-in-law (el Cunadisimo), Ramón Serrano Sufier...
...city which had once been the heart of Republican resistance soon echoed with cries of Arriba España! Viva Franco! The clenched fist became the upraised arm. Some 40,000 secret Fascist sympathizers -members of the Fifth Column-dropped their Republican disguise, took over the city even before the first of Franco's troops had crossed the Manzanares River and taken actual possession of Madrid. Out of hiding in foreign embassies and legations came hundreds of Franco partisans...
...Hippodrome last week, the ancient rafters that once shook for Diver Annette Kellerman shook again with shouts of mucho and arriba, as a cosmopolitan audience, looking like a first-night opera crowd, crammed into tiers of red & gold chairs, witnessed as exciting a jai-alai program as they had ever seen in any Latin country. The program consisted of four games (three doubles and one singles), with entr'actes of Spanish fandangos to keep the spectators' minds off the absence of betting-an integral part of the game's popularity in other cities. Headliners were the "Four...
...waiting with great impatience. We are responsible people of Gijón and the enthusiasm in our streets is overwhelming. Arriba España! Viva Franco...