Word: caudillo
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Seville's hard-shelled Cardinal Segura, who has repeatedly attacked such freedom of worship as is granted to Spain's 20,000-odd Protestants, is equally persistent in his opposition to Caudillo Franco's Fascist party, the Falange. His reason: he believes that both Protestants and Falangists are a threat to Roman Catholicism. The latest bulletin of his archdiocese, out last week, contained a letter forbidding seminarians to attend the Falange's summer youth camps. The atmosphere there, said the cardinal, "is full of perils for the formation of the conscience of a future priest...
Senator Brewster, Senator McCarran, and the others who plumped for economic aid to France, insisted that American dollars would soften the Caudillo's heart and make him a valuable ally against Communism, Spain, it was argued, is crucial as a military base and as a source of military power and strategic materials...
...Saint Perón's Day signifies that popular rapture has reached a heavenly level. It is not enough to call Perón a Caudillo, Big Brother, Duce or Führer; these terms have a worldly connotation, and since he has achieved heavenly status without the necessity of dying, it is better to dub him saint. But in another sense, Saint-Peron-ism is the political version of Superman. Even as the followers of Superman trust in his extraordinary talents, so do the shirtless worshipers of Saint Perón believe in his special powers-divine, atomic...
...Murphy set the week's high mark in sightseeing-he saw the Falange headquarters and General Francisco Franco. Nattily togged out in a grey nylon shirt and grey suit, Murphy arrived at the guarded gate of El Pardo in a yellow government car, and was welcomed by the Caudillo in a blue civilian suit...
...comment, but there seems to be a concentrated effort to line up Congress and the people behind a program of aid and comfort to Franco. Senator Pat McCarran is currently touring Europe, trying to see how relations with Spain can be improved; an American naval delegations recently visited the Caudillo, gave a big show for Spanish government officials, and was warmly received...