Word: caudillos
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Spain's Nazi-loving Dictator Francisco Franco took a tighter grip on his war-scarred country last week. Before El Caudillo in Madrid's El Prado Palace stood four Roman Catholic prelates, the Bishops of Barcelona, Ciudad Real, Jaén and Salamanca. They were there to do what none of their predecessors had done since medieval days: take an oath of fealty to the head of the Spanish State...
...excerpts printed by the U.S. press ignored that statement (it appeared in the version broadcast in Spain and transcribed in the U.S.). Few Americans knew that the Caudillo made it. Nevertheless, Ambassadors Hayes and Hoare heard...
...appointed day, in the big, black Mercédés-Benz given him by Hitler, the Caudillo slid down the Puerta del Sol and Carrera de San Jerónimo. In the Puerta del Sol. he was greeted by trumpeters, and again in front of the Cortes...
Inside, the chunky Caudillo spoke mostly in the flowery phrases of Fascist mumbo jumbo. But he did predict that the war would last another six or seven years. And, with British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare and U.S. Ambassador Carlton Hayes sitting there listening, the Caudillo suggested that all the belligerents might yet get together and fight Russia. Said Franco: "The presence of Russia on one of the sides gives the struggle in Europe the character of a war to death. Many are the surprises that a long war might yet present...
Once again the Caudillo slapped the faces of his Allied appeasers. Three weeks after U.S. Ambassador Hayes praised the Franco Government (whose Blue Division is fighting with the Wehrmacht against Russia), and publicized the aid that Spain was receiving from the U.S., Axis-Admirer Francisco Franco boasted to the Cortes...