Word: caudillo
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Like most of his countrymen, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Caudillo of Spain, is fond of good food. Unlike most of them, he has been able to indulge the taste consistently for many years and possesses respectable ebonpoint to prove it. Yet if ever a man had cause to pick nervously at his victuals, that man is Francisco Franco. This week his well-padded posterior is planted on one of the hottest governmental hot seats in all the world. And the main question facing him is not whether he can ease the situation, but whether he can stay there...
Last week Sir Samuel flew to La Corufia with a stern warning for fat Franco. The time had come, Sir Samuel said, for the Caudillo to abandon his pro-Axis nonbelligerency, begin to think and act like a neutral. Sir Samuel added that the U.S. had full knowledge of his visit and message. In Franco's villa at Pazo de Leiras, outside La Corufia, Sir Samuel listed Britain's demands...
...Britain rumor said that the Franco Government's promonarchist Ambassador, the Duke of Alba (TIME, July 5), was touting restoration of the Spanish Bourbons. Reported The Week: Spanish monarchists had decided not to seek to replace Caudillo Franco from within but to work from abroad through influential friends in England...
...British Foreign Office, like the U.S. State Department, has been trying to wheedle Spain's Caudillo Francisco Franco away from the Axis. But the British press and little Britons in their pubs have long been fed up with Foreign Office gentility. They have demanded that British words and actions directed toward Franco be short and pointed enough to yank him off the Axis platform. Last week two official Britons served public notice that Great Britain is going to tolerate much less arrogance from fat, Fascist Franco...
...first glance, such an oath-practically making each Bishop a local Franco agent-would seem superfluous in Catholic Spain. But people in the Basque and Catalan provinces (hotbeds of Loyalism during the Civil War) still dislike El Caudillo, show it openly now & then. To whip these malcontents into line, Franco has adopted the age-old custom of giving the Church a role to play in his political drama...