Word: cortese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A change was imminent at the other end of the European ideological map. Last week Madrid buzzed with the ru mor that Francisco Franco was about to give his nation a new constitution at last. This week Franco will call an extraordinary session of the Cortes which, later this month...
The new constitution is expected to create a Prime Minister, enlarge the functions of the Council of the Realm (heretofore purely decorative), grant wider representation to the Cortes and -most important-limit the power of the head of state in the transition period to a return to constitutional monarchy. Said...
Some 500 parliamentarians of the Spanish Cortes leaned back against their blue-grey benches as Information and Tourism Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne declared that the legislation before them bridged "two ideological extremes-an absolute and unlimited freedom of the press and total state control." Then, with three dissenting votes, the...
Sir: You describe Opus Dei Member Rafael Calvo Serer as a liberal monarchist who is a prominent opponent of the Franco regime. Calvo Serer's principal quarrel with Franco is over the timetable for restoration of the monarchy. As for his alleged liberality, in his published writings Calvo Serer...
- Monarchist Calvo Serer has changed. In a treatise to be published soon, he calls for an adapted form of the British constitutional monarchy, complete with three major parties (Conservative, Christian Democrat and Socialist), representative Cortes-and universal suffrage.