Word: falangiste
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...Spain's fratricide was too bloody and too recent. Loyalists refused to have their dead entombed with their enemies; Franco's own Nationalists objected to burial beside Loyalists. "Absolutely not," snapped Pilar Primo de Rivera, sister of Falangist Founder Jose Antonio, when she heard that Franco planned to move her brother's body from El Escorial (where Spain's kings are entombed...
...fishers and farmers are appallingly poor, and that the Spanish church is the most inflexible in Catholicism, and blurred them in something called a "documentary novel." But, encysted in a perfunctorily told story in which each character is paraded merely as a type-the grasping peasant, the sadistic Falangist, the hardy old freedom fighter-facts quickly take on the smell of falsity. And ironically, although the authors speak in their introduction of enduring daily police questioning and of being "forced to resort to lies, to cultivate friendships among informers, torturers and murderers" in order to keep faith with friends, there...
Distributing Favors. Falangist Labor Minister José Antonio Giron, an ambitious orator who has been a Cabinet member for 16 of his 44 years, was dropped; militant Falange Chief José Luis de Arrese was shifted to the Ministry of Housing; José Solis Ruiz, the new secretary general of the party, was made minister without portfolio. The Falange was furious, called these changes an attempt to deal the party "a death blow." To appease the hotheads, Franco fired the most violently partisan of the Monarchists, Fernando Súarez de Tangil, Count of Vallellano, but at the same time...
When the proclamation announcing Franco's fourth Cabinet in 20 years (the others: 1936, 1945, 1951) appeared three days later, the big surprise was not the points award in the Monarchist-Falangist struggle but the appointment of respected Economist Pedro Gual Villalbí to take charge of Spain's downsliding economy. Spaniards noted that four of the 18 Cabinet members belong to Opus Dei, an ascetic Roman Catholic secular order which leans more on the Vatican than on the controversy-torn Spanish clerical hierarchy and has long campaigned against graft in government. Said Franco: "They bring...
...regime, now feeling itself isolated and abandoned, has reverted to its principle of a "dialetic of pistols and fists." It is a traditional expression well grounded in the Falangist ideologies...