Word: arribas
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Like many another opportunist who leaped aboard the Fascist band wagon, Juan March's nostrils apparently told him that the band wagon was turning into a one-hoss shay. Other Spaniards sniffed the same scent. Arriba, Falange newspaper in Madrid, termed Mussolini's fall "a symbol of a defeated people" and asked: "What power, what institution can today resist defeat...
Franco himself took over the post of chief of the Falange, naming as the Party's vice president Manuel Mora Figueroa, an aggressive Falangist just returned from service with Spain's Blue Division fighting Russia. Without a quiver of regret for Serrano, the Falange newspaper Arriba declared: "Our internal policy follows its unmistakable line and our foreign policy is sealed with blood and reaffirmed in silent heroisms...
...observers at least, the propaganda that Germany had cooked up for Spanish consumption seemed even less potent than the pressure on Vichy. Headlined in the Falangist paper Arriba was a story that exiled Loyalist General Jose Miaja had been plotting with...
Embassy in Mexico City to lead a Spanish Republican army against the Canary Islands. This cabal, Arriba snarled, was conceived "under the bloodless standard of the movies and with puerile disregard of the vigor of free peoples." Not published in Madrid were the prompt denials of General Miaja and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels...
...that Franco had made changes long deferred while he dickered with the U.S. for food. Best guess was that he was simply strengthening his Government, replacing conservative civilians with both Falangists and Army men. The Army appointments of last month remained. Supporting this guess was a proposal in Arriba, Falangist mouthpiece: "The Falange hails the Army today and comes forward to propose, honorably, frankly and irrevocably, a firm and sacred alliance for Spain...