Word: arriba
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...Adolfo Munoz Alonso, Spanish theologian and philosophy professor at the University of Madrid, found some Protestant leaflets in his morning's mail and went off like a cobalt bomb. Such literature, he wrote in the Falangist daily Arriba, is "simply an insult. This is not a social and political outrage but something even more repulsive-a lack of consideration." Nowadays, he wrote, Protestantism is not even a faith, "not a positive doctrine but a negative one. It is not an attempt at moral, spiritual or religious reform, nor an individualist explanation of the Gospel. Today Protestantism has lost...
...week's end, disturbed by "malicious speculation" abroad about the monarchy, Dictator Franco issued an interview in the Falangist Arriba, reassuring his Fascist supporters that in thinking about restoration of the monarchy he does not have in mind a "liberal or parliamentary" monarchy, but one which will "incarnate the principles of unity and authority" held by those "of the Catholic confession." Being a King of Spain never was a comfortable...
Last week Arriba, Madrid's official Falange newspaper, absolved Ataulfo, expressed satisfaction that "we are able to remain Ataulfo's friends and comrades...
...moment last week, Franco's steely hand fumbled. In Madrid, civilian crowds battled police, defied the Falange, burned copies of the newspaper Arriba in the streets. It was the biggest mass defiance of Franco's police in the 15 years of his regime...
When Director General of Police Rafael Hierro appeared on a balcony and tried to speak, the crowd yelled: "Assassin!" Infuriated because neither press nor radio had mentioned the riots, the students scoured downtown Madrid for copies of Arriba and made bonfires of them, howling for "freedom of the press"-a concept whose meaning had suddenly become clear to them. They stormed Radio Madrid in an attempt to broadcast their complaints...