Word: caudillo
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...Caudillo should be given his due. Spain is orderly and there is relatively little crime-thanks to police in overwhelming numbers and varieties. In recent months there have been fewer political arrests and no political executions. The Falange is currently on the wane-to the gratitude of every Spaniard except the Falangists. There has been a certain mellowing over the years; individuals may criticize discreetly, although the newspapers are still government-cast stereotypes...
Both sides had planned carefully. Spanish Republicans had announced a "month of agitation" to attract U.N. attention to Franco repression. But the Caudillo acted first, suddenly uncovered for U.N. gaze a Communist cell conspiring in Madrid, claimed to have bagged the entire central committee of the Spanish Communist Party. He clapped some 70 persons into prison incommunicado. Next day, as if with damp fuses, 14 bombs burst belatedly in front of Madrid food shops...
...Then the Caudillo abandoned humility for a boast. "Only two countries in the world know where they are going," he said. "They are Spain and Russia." Russia's goal was world conquest; Franco's own (he explained later) was to provide three shirts for every Spanish peasant...
...Portuguese paper mentioned the recent wave of strikes in the U.S. nor any other labor conflict. The United Nations is barely mentioned, because Portugal is not a member. Since there is sometimes courtesy, if not honor, among dictators, Salazar has permitted no mention of the controversy between U.N. and Caudillo Francisco Franco...
...quay at El Ferrol, where the Caudillo was born, an old man sings to himself: "Francisco, you are done for. Francisco, you are sunk." The police pounce on him. They discover that the culprit is the Caudillo's aged father, who is sure that his son's power & glory are evanescent and will lead him only to ruin...