Word: caudillo
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...seen that no accommodation for public or press should be available. Everything that recalled any liberal period since the Cortes of Cádiz in 1812 was gone as the Procuradores (literally: procurers) of Spain's new Cortes assembled last week to be sworn in and listen to Caudillo Francisco Franco...
...Caudillo Franco, warns Hamilton, is by no means just another Spanish dictator. "He is a ... Fascist, with unshakable imperialist aims and an intransigence toward the democracies which, unlike Hitler, he has never attempted to disguise. . . . His community of purpose with Hitler and Mussolini has been strengthened by the fact that only the overthrow of France, England and the United States will permit Franco's regime to attain its ambitions in Africa and Latin America. These ambitions are a part of Franco himself and were not wished upon him by Serrano Suñer or anybody else...
...plays the Fascist fiddle has been one of cautious appeasement. In July 1939 the U.S. gave Franco a $13,350,000 loan to buy cotton, his most urgent need. When the cotton arrived, the Franco press gave it a couple of lines, praised it as a "work of the Caudillo...
President Ubico is a cautious caudillo. Elected in 1931 for a six-year term, in 1935 he nervously insisted on a plebiscite which abrogated the constitutional provision against re-election of a President for twelve years, gave him eight years more in office. Last week he decided again that his country needed a man like him: two years before his term expired he had a Constitutional Congress stretch his term again-this time until March...
...support of Catholics in Latin America, Caudillo Franco's letter came a little late, for the Vatican had pointedly withheld its blessing from the war (TIME, July 14). In Costa Rica, where the letter was first released to the public, the reaction of the press was one of sympathy, not with Franco, but with Spaniards forced to fight for Hitler. It looked as if Hitler had done himself no good in talking in the voice of Spain...