Word: falangists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into this scene of amity rushed a couple of Falangist hotheads. Just back from volunteer service with the Spanish Blue Division on the Russian Front, they ripped the posters from the walls, denounced their countrymen as traitors. Spanish guards handcuffed the two intruders, lugged them to the calabozo...
...British officials had long since learned to use such episodes to press Franco further away from the Axis, squeeze valuable concessions from him. Last week the Falange, political core of Spain's Fascism, announced a program of general "relaxation" in domestic affairs, even dissolved the rambunctious Falangist Militia. The last elements of the Blue Division returned from Russia to be disbanded. A No.1 subject of current negotiations is the question of Italian merchantmen and warships held in Spanish ports...
Spaniards with money and Falangist affiliations ate well in Madrid. Their women sported silver-fox furs and Parisian hats. Other Spaniards sullenly starved...
Last week Francisco Franco reorganized his military bureaucracy. Appointed chief of Spain's military cabinet was General Agustin Munoz Grande, who served as liaison officer with the German Condor Legion in the civil war, proudly wears an Iron Cross bestowed by Hitler. Politically, he is a fanatical Falangist, no friend of the Allies, who are now buttering up Fascist Franco (TIME, March...
Fulgencio Batista, Cuba's dynamic President, hates fat Francisco Franco of Spain and does not care who knows it. A month ago, after a visit to Washington, President Batista announced that an Allied invasion of Falangist Spain would bring a "total ovation . . . throughout all Latin America" (TIME...