Word: caudillo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps because his own interest and involvement have been spontaneous, Reid's letters from Spain have captured very tangibly the people, the politics, and the spirit of the place, as well as the tension and maneuverings behind the portly figure of the Caudillo. The style of his reporting is vividly fresh. Reid takes the reader into open cafes and closed discussions, where he allows him to have a glass of wine and eavesdrop. The speakers are Basque seamen and financiers, Catalan laborers, Castillian artists. The mood is apprehensive, comic, and speculative by turns. Reid is very enthusiastic about this method...
...Gaulle of "usurpation" and of asking the nation to "legalize his coups d'etat." Economic Planner Etienne Hirsch blasted De Gaulle by asking if the man who wanted to be the "supreme guide" of France had "forgotten how this translates into Italian, Spanish or German"-il Duce, el Caudillo, der Fűhrer. Opposition posters quoted the words of the late Premier Georges Clemenceau: "The cemeteries are full of indispensable...
There had, in fact, been picks and shovels, but they had been supplied by the Franco regime. Moving with a speed unprecedented in Spain, El Caudillo's efficient new Vice Premier, Captain General Agustin Mufioz Grandes, had been in Barcelona within twelve hours after the flood, quickly arranged for rescue and relief operations. Workers were promised 90% of their base pay until their destroyed plants were reopened. Factory owners received $16 million in easy credit. Farmers got pledges of machinery and fertilizer to revive about 2,000 ravaged acres of land. Thus, when Franco arrived at the Barcelona cathedral...
...Spanish cities. There were blasts outside newspaper offices in Madrid and Barcelona; the increasing boldness of the regime's opposition was amply illustrated when another explosion shattered the windows of Franco's summer palace on the outskirts of San Sebastian. To the relief of the police. El Caudillo was off on a fishing trip at the time...
...Caudillo defeated the Republicans. You use the word Republicans to conceal the fact that Franco drove the Communists out of Spain and saved all Europe from Red occupation...