Word: caudillo
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...Franco era in Spain is near. Just how near no one can say, for the dictator has proved himself immensely durable. Almost a quarter of a century has passed since El Caudillo defeated the Republicans in Spain's bloody Civil War and built his stern, stable military regime in the proud, suffering land. Today, he seems as confident as ever that the regime can go on forever. But all the signs dispute him. There is in Spain a ferment and unrest that signals change ahead...
...Franco regime,'' agrees Jesus Prados Arrarte, chief economist of Spain's Central Bank, who recently fled the country. To some extent, this was typical exiles' talk; no one really expected imminent revolution in Spain. Nevertheless, it all testified to the rising expectation that El Caudillo. at 69, cannot last much longer. Everybody in Spain is waiting to see who will succeed...
...philosophies. Bishop Angel Herrera of Malaga has been exposing Spain's social inequities from the pulpit for more than a decade. In 1960, a letter was signed by 352 Basque priests condemning the regime's stifling of basic freedoms; last year several Catholic archbishops urged El Caudillo to drop press censorship...
Still full and unreserved are Dictator Francisco Franco's prestige and power with the group that counts most in today's Spain, the army. Perhaps the Caudillo's closest friend and ally is the Chief of the General Staff, Captain General Agustin Munoz Grandes, who commanded Franco's Blue Division when it fought beside the Nazis on the Russian front in 1941, and who has an iron grip on the military units...
...Caudillo resented the publicity that Spain's strikes were getting abroad. "It seems paradoxical," he said, "that when life is subject to almost total paralysis in many European countries, under their vacillating political systems, our small labor difficulties should be exploited in this way." Franco touched on the question of who would succeed him, pointed to the Spanish law of 1947 providing for the eventual return of the monarchy. But in case anyone in the audience thought that he was getting too old to handle his country, Franco, 69, added, to resounding cheers: "I feel young, as young...