Word: caudillo
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...from the Priests. The complaints are many, for the Spanish worker puts in longer hours for less pay than almost any other worker in Western Europe, and strikes are legally banned. When El Caudillo granted substantial wage boosts for the 60,000 striking Asturias coal miners last summer, he merely whetted the appetites of workers in the rest of the country; another increase last Jan. i, raising unskilled laborers from a minimum 60? to $1 per day, did not help the millions of skilled workers above this meager floor...
...populace as a whole now accepts his regime, and 2 ) Spain cannot survive economically if it is excluded from the European Common Market, whose members bitterly dislike his autocratic ways. The stubborn illegal strikes that crippled Spain's economy for two months last year also forced el Caudillo to recognize that the country's hard-pressed workers are desperately eager to enjoy living standards comparable to those of other Europeans...
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...