Word: falangists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tuesday the brutal action of the police was followed up by an attack on the university by a group of "young men, seemingly students" (so the official press reported) who in truth were members of "Franco's guard" (an elite Falangist force). They were armed with whips and pistols. Before they left they had seriously wounded six students, caused numerous minor injuries to many others, and arrested over 20 students. It is important to make clear that, despite the official accusation that the demonstration at the university, to our knowledge this was the only intrusion of any elements alien...
Drifting Nation. Francois one talent -survival-has made him skillful in manipulating the forces that support his regime: army, church, party. He plays off the Monarchists against his Falangist party bosses, leaving both in doubt as to his successor. Last September Falange Secretary-General José Luis de Arrese and Agricultural Minister Rafael Cavestany, alarmed by Spain's drift, presented Franco with draft laws for a totalitarian state headed by the Falange Party. Franco stalled. A fortnight ago Arrese and Cavestany resigned. But faced with the unrest that is stirring throughout Spain (riots in Seville as well as boycotts...
Died. Lieut. General José Moscardó Ituarte, 77, Count of Alcázar de Toledo, Falangist hero of one of the most celebrated battles of the Spanish civil war; of a heart attack while shaving in bed; in Madrid. As commandant of Spain's West Point, the Alcázar of Toledo, Professional Soldier Moscardó withstood the 67-day Loyalist assault on the ancient fortress-castle with some 1,100 soldiers and civilians, was finally relieved by a Franco army after Loyalist troops had hurled more than 6,000 4-in. shells...
...Rolls-Royce, and together, flanked by a squadron of Franco's Moorish guard, they drove into Madrid, while thousands of Spaniards waved handkerchiefs and cried Viva el Sultan! Later at Franco's El Pardo palace, the Order of the Yoke and Arrows (a Falangist creation) was hung around the Sultan's neck. Then the Moroccans got down to business in the Goya room at El Pardo. Recognizing that Spain's 44-year-old Moroccan protectorate (a kind of sublease from French Morocco) no longer "corresponds to present reality," Franco agreed to yield...
...Foreigners were halted and asked to show proof of their identity. Prizewinning Cinema Director Juan Antonio Bardem (noted for his outspoken film Death of a Cyclist) was picked up while making a new picture with U.S. Filmactress Betsy (Marty) Blair, wife of Hollywood's Gene Kelly. While the Falangist newspaper Arriba hysterically blamed the "hostile foreign press" for instigating violence, Dictator Franco postponed his dearly loved annual deer and boar hunt to study his people's heartbeat...