Word: falangists
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...didn't surprise me entirely though. In Madrid someone had taken the far-right Falangist party on dozens of building Graffiti's proclaiming "SKIN HEADS" and "KKK" occupied conspicuous places in subway stations. I'd seen racist rhetoric in the T and on down town buildings in Boston, but never to much as in Madrid...
Solzhenitsyn's extreme view of events was illustrated not long ago in a lecture over Madrid television. He dismayed liberals by declaring that the Falangist victory in the Spanish civil war had been a victory for "the concept of Christianity." Addressing Spaniards who view their government as a dictatorship, Solzhenitsyn assured them that after an eight-day trip he could see that they enjoy "absolute freedom...
...Franco stepped out onto the balcony of the Royal Palace overlooking Madrid's Plaza de Oriente. Instantly, the human sea of 150,000 faithful down below him thrust right arms forward in salute. Then the crowd launched into Face to the Sun, the anthem of the right-wing Falangist shopkeepers and tradesmen who sided with Franco when he began his bloody struggle for power 39 years ago and have been unswerving in their support of him ever since. Franco spoke only three minutes in his thin, barely audible voice, but that was all he needed. Spain was under assault...
...Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain for the past 36 years, stood at attention on a gold-railed rostrum, taking the salute as 11,000 troops and "Forces of Public Order" paraded down Madrid's broad Paseo de la Castellana on the annual "Day of Victory" celebrating the final Falangist victory. Franco, unassisted, then descended from the dais, climbed into his huge, pre-World War II Rolls-Royce and, again standing, was slowly driven off to cries of "Franco! Franco! Franco...
...demanding public performance was clearly designed to demonstrate el Caudillo's remarkable recovery from a near-fatal stroke last summer. Yet even that performance could not overcome Spaniards' feelings that Franco's days in power are numbered-perhaps only until July 18, the anniversary of the Falangist uprising in 1936. From Madrid, Bureau Chief Gavin Scott cabled the following report...