Word: falangists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Upped to Galarza's post of sub-secretary to the Caudillo was Luis Carrero Blanco, who was Chief of Naval Operations throughout the Civil War. In as Chief of Staff of the Army was another of Franco's intimates, General Jose Fidel Davila. Out went the Falangist head of the national police, many lesser fry and five provincial governors, including Miguel Primo de Rivera, brother of the Falange's founder. When the Falangist paper Arriba attacked him, Galarza promptly rescinded a five-day-old order exempting it from Government censorship...
...Senator's pop-up was unfortunate for Good Neighborism. In Havana a gang of youths hurled bottles through the plate-glass windows of a Woolworth 5-&-10? store with notes in the bottles saying: "Down with the American Senate!" "This reply to the American Senator!" In Madrid the Falangist newspaper Arriba seized upon the resolution as an indication of U. S. imperialism, observed that "neither Cuba nor the other Latin-American countries have any connection with the British and Protestant civilization of the United States." In Washington, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had to make the wholly unnecessary explanation...
...Falangist Leader Jenaro Riestra went to Havana from Spain last week with a consul generalship for himself, a present for Cuban President Colonel Fulgencio Batista. Neither made...
...Consul, fearing he would use his diplomatic immunity to promote Cuban fascism. Other Cubans stirred up so much trouble that police barred all visitors from the pier when the Marques de Camillas pulled in. Then shrewd Boss Batista heard his present was to be a sword from the Spanish Falangist Party and turned it down before it was even offered. Said his secretary: "He esteems it improper and inappropriate to think that a foreign political party with an ideology so contrary to that of the persons who have elected him should intend such...
...reunion" of Milland and his "wife" in the offices of the Falangist general; the conversation on "three ways to get a woman" in the plane; the idyllic night in the woods of Compiegne; and the contrast as war and day break over the forest--these are the delicious drops in a goblet of directorial wine. It is a picture with a mood--and only the martial music of the final few moments mars the perfection of the whole...