Word: cortese
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cortes: "Fascist-Minded?"
In the March n issue of your estimable publication appears a brief reference to the death of Mr. Leon Cortes Castro, in which it is stated that this illustrious ex-President of my country was a man of fascist tendencies. Nothing could be farther from the truth. . . .
Largo Caballero hated violence and preached against it, but was forced to it again & again by the violent faith he had espoused-and the violent reaction that faith provoked. In 1917, when he was 48, he led his first revolutionary general strike. He was arrested, sentenced to life imprisonment. Elected...
Inside Spain, ancient monarchist families painfully felt a new, hostile attitude. It was rumored that Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Fitz-James Stuart Falco, Duke of Alba (Britain's Duke of Berwick), the Duchess of Medina Sidonia, the Duke of Medinaceli and others were fined a half million...
Franco: "I would call your attention to the fact that the Cortes has been functioning for three years. The Government doesn't make the laws. All the laws that the Government recommends go to the Cortes for consideration and possible passage."