Word: falangists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dressed him down for his sparsity of morals and his abundance of pro-Axis sympathies. Leaving the audience in a white rage, Serrano reportedly cracked: "This fellow is impossible!" In Catholic Spain the slur was intolerable. Even worse was Serrano's bumble of Aug. 15 when his Falangist thugs tossed a grenade into a crowd coming out of Bilbao Cathedral...
...Foreign Minister, Franco named blond, blue-eyed General Francisco Gómez Jordana y Souza, an anti-Falangist Tradicionalista who was Foreign Minister when the U.S. recognized Franco's Government in 1939. Count Gómez Jordana is considered less pro-Axis than Serrano but was loudly pro-German in World...
Franco himself took over the post of chief of the Falange, naming as the Party's vice president Manuel Mora Figueroa, an aggressive Falangist just returned from service with Spain's Blue Division fighting Russia. Without a quiver of regret for Serrano, the Falange newspaper Arriba declared: "Our internal policy follows its unmistakable line and our foreign policy is sealed with blood and reaffirmed in silent heroisms...
...reasons: 1) the U.S. needs Spanish tungsten ore and cork (an RFC buying agency, blessed by both the State Department and the Board of Economic Warfare, is now doing business with Franco); 2) the U.S. is being hurt by Spanish Falangist propaganda in the Americas...
Last week in Madrid a full page in the Falangist newspaper Informaciones sagged heavily with the musty weight of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels' latest caution to Latin America about Yankee imperialism. But the text of this familiar theme had barely reached Central and South American shores, when Dr. Goebbels had got from Latin America new lumps for himself, for Führer and for Fatherland...