Word: falangists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Questions. Jordana replaced Franco's brother-in-law, Serrano Suñer, a fanatical Falangist, a few weeks before the North African invasion. It was a happy freak of fortune, says Sir Samuel, that Franco chose this time to oust his ambitious brother-in-law. Had Serrano Suñer remained in office, the invasion might have miscarried. The Gibraltar airfield could have been crippled "in less than a half hour." Gibraltar bay, which had been filling with ships for days, was almost as vulnerable. Jordana was "pro-Ally to the core," discreetly looked the other way, asked...
...footnote to your reference to Caballero's "missing" son? He was Franco's prisoner. Franco offered to exchange him for a leader of the Falangist movement, in jail and coming up for trial on charge of treason to the Republic. Caballero refused. His son, Caballero said, had committed no crime...
...Packard limousine (he no longer uses a German Mercedes-Benz), the most unquixotic of Spaniards drove through his capital. His Sancho Panzas were red-bereted bodyguards armed with Tommy guns. A clamorous crowd was assembled to cheer his progress through the Puerta del Sol. They gave the Falangist salute. They chanted: "Franco! Franco! Franco!" They screamed: "Franco, yes! Russia...
...Duchess of Medina Sidonia, the Duke of Medinaceli and others were fined a half million pesetas for signing a royalist manifesto. It was fact that Alba and five more "ceased" to be members of the Cortes, that royalist officials were fired, that royalist university professors were assaulted by Falangist students...
From Europe have come 57 students, many of whom have declared intention of making their permanent homes here. This number includes ten from Nazi Germany, two from Falangist Spain, and one from Soviet Russia. The Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Canal Zone, which are United States territories, have sent four students; the British South American and Caribbean possessions are also the homes of four...