Word: caudillo
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Early this year, Lohman considered selling out and going back to Texas. But nothing came of the idea. Last week, caudillo-like, he was holding court at Red Wells-now promising a young Indian more corn for his squaw, now buying 30 cattle from a small rancher so that the man could pay for his wedding. "I think my place is right here in the Chaco," he said. "That's where I belong...
...Divided." One day last week, escorted by 400 Moorish guards mounted on gold-shod Arabian steeds, Franco rode to the Cortes. No less resplendent than his escorts, whose azure, red & orange capes flowed in the wind, the Caudillo wore the yellow, red & gold dress uniform of a Field Marshal of Spain. Briskly he entered the Cortes chamber through a special door which had been ripped open for him the night before, was bricked up again after the ceremony. Bobbing up & down, Franco acknowledged the cheers of the white-jacketed Procuradores (Cortes members) and the blue-uniformed Falangists. On hand...
Churchill preserved a dignified silence. Although more & more people felt that it was time for the West to establish some sort of clear-cut relationship with Franco Spain, the Caudillo's invective had won him no friends in Britain, and his coos had moved Washington not a whit. Said one madrileño last week: "We are alone, and always will be-until," he added hopefully, "something happens...
Save Franco. When Hitler needed Spain's military help, Franco pleaded unreadiness. Hitler reminded the little Caudillo that without Hitler and Mussolini there would have been no Fascist Spain. Franco placated the Führer by refueling Nazi submarines with U.S. oil, giving German spies a free hand, and turning over the Spanish press to Axis propagandists. (Hitler had kept an itemized bill for his aid to Franco during the Spanish Civil War; Franco made payments on it all through World War II with U.S. food and oil and Spanish strategic materials which, he told the Allies, Hitler would...
Obviously not a convert to Spanish Republicanism, he nevertheless repudiates in most emphatic and explicit tones the entire administration of the Caudillo and would substitute for it a constitutional monarchy. As forceful as his dislike of Franco is Hoare's hearty endorsement of Count Francisco Jordana, who was for two years Franco's Minister for Foreign Affairs. He credits the success of the North African invasion operations partly to Jordana's co-operative and discreet attitude--"pro-Ally to the core...