Word: falangists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Señor Serrano Suñer won another round when Generalissimo Franco shook up the Cabinet and the Falange, now the only legal political organization in Spain. Already Minister of the Interior, Serrano Suñer became president of the policy-making Falangist Council and acquired the portfolios of Public Order, Sanitation and Health. His most potent rival within the Falange, anti-Italian, conservative Raimundo Fernández Cuesta, lost his jobs as Secretary of the Falange and Minister of Agriculture. An even more important scalp was that of Foreign Minister General Count Francisco...
...promising wages high enough to give the "humble classes" access to culture. All over Spain there were prayers and parades, masses and mass meetings, chants and cheers for Francisco Franco; all over Spain there were uniforms-the khaki of the regular Army, red berets and blue shirts of the Falangists; white blouses and blue skirts of the Auxilio Social. Uniforms on an individualistic people, children marching and chanting in unison the Falangist slogan "Produce! Produce! Produce!" Madrid workmen, traditional Leftists, parading with hammers, wrenches, shovels, trowels, to show their respective trades-all this said that the old Spain was dead...
...March (TIME, April 5), their poor showing at Bilbao, had been ordered to Toledo to remain in reserve for the eternally discussed final attack on Madrid. To make way for them, Spanish regulars were ordered to vacate the most comfortable barracks in the city. Firing broke out, the Falangist, Spanish Fascists, coming to the assistance of the Italians, and the Moors, always a little uncertain whom they were fighting and for what, joined in the fight in Toledo's ancient bull ring...