Word: caudillo
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...west are Spanish Morocco, the Strait of Gibraltar, the sullen, hungry, heartsick land of Spain, where the corpulent Caudillo Franco balances sympathy against expediency, and ponders how he can best save his moth-eaten skin...
...Upmost Caudillo. Belatedly, Colonel Perón and the Government tried to tone down the interview after they saw it in cold print in the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio. Perón claimed misunderstanding and misuse of off-the-record statements. Said a canny Argentine: "He doesn't say he didn't mean it; he says he didn't mean it to be published...
...become a figurehead. El Mercurio put the spotlight on Argentina's real leadership-the Army clique behind Ramirez. It said: "If the tide flows on as now and if there are not international complications, Colonel Perón can be, in a short time, the upmost Caudillo of the Argentine Republic...
...Spain itself there was no true unity to meet such a crisis. Of the groups supporting his Government, none was entirely satisfied. Some were definitely dissatisfied. In shrill alarm the Madrid El Espanol denounced "conspiracies against the Caudillo which favor a regime of free-for-all shooting." The paper added: "At present the operations against the legitimate regime are being launched in the name of nationalism, capitalism, monarchism, conservatism and Christian liberalism. All these groups, in league with the Reds in a half-baked alliance, fear the Falange and its unified leadership...
...Falange had set up its own form of Auslandsdienst to carry the gospel of Hispanidad to the New World and reestablish Spain as the dominant cultural, economic and political influence in Latin America. El Caudillo dreamed of empire. In this exuberant period, there must have been at least a half-dozen occasions when Falange extremists almost carried the day for war, for an imperialist adventure to unify and recreate Spain. But Franco always decided to wait a little longer...