Word: falangists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the manifesto: "We assert that economic and political democracy are inseparable . . . [We call on the world's workers to] unite with us to achieve a world in which people are free from Communist, Fascist, Falangist and other forms of totalitarianism...
...Falangist press did its utmost to emphasize that the naval call represented "the real feeling of U.S. public opinion toward Spain." An editorial in Juventad proclaimed: "American friends, we . . . have more reasons to hate you than to love you . . . But we can forgive all when he who has offended comes to us with a smile on his lips. In this case our pride gives way to simpatia, and we are ready to fraternize with our old enemy who is now our new friend...
...bought in the black market at 500 pesetas ($20) a copy. The price was steep but rewarding. Serrano Suñer had passed on to the book's author, Journalist Armando Chavez Camacho of Mexico City, a choice comment by Adolf Hitler on Sancho Davila, a burly Falangist bullyboy who had once killed two party rivals in a political brawl, and had long been feuding with Serrano Suñer. Sneered the Führer: "[Sancho Davila] is stupidity personified . . . the greatest fool ever to come to my headquarters...
...little clique of lawyers who run the movement has begun to translate its strength into political power. Whether this is due to the new party's energetic young president, Schoolmaster Seferino Sánchez Hidalgo, or to two key leaders, Enrique Marfin and Hidalgo Gonzalez (now conferring with Falangist chiefs in Spain), is not clear...
...Franco rhetoric about "Christian democracy" has disappeared. Falangist "Old Shirts," supposedly displaced, are active again. Franco's phony succession law (which will permit him to appoint his own political heir) is practically being written by Falangists. Said Franco last week: "The Falange is . . . the soul of our national resurrection...