Word: falangists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Protestant church, where such a ceremony is palpably impossible. When Juliana refused, Irene abruptly decided to stay home from a scheduled state visit to Mexico with her mother. And in further retaliation, Irene issued a public statement that she would support her fiance's royalist ambitions and Falangist politics. The Queen appeared in tears at the airport, even waited for a while, apparently in the hope that her errant daughter would change her mind, finally took off when Irene did not show up. "You can't do such a thing to your mother," muttered people in the airport...
Early one morning in the summer of 1936, Federico Garcia Lorca was taken to a field outside the old Moorish city of Granada and shot by a Falangist firing squad. This was ordered, it now seems possible, not because Lorca had any political affiliations but because Manuel Fernandez Montesinos, the Socialist mayor of Granada, was his brother-in-law. His death was a reminder that in the Spain of the time, virtually any consideration could expose a man to a firing squad from either side. Lorca was buried in a shallow, unmarked grave on a hillside beside several thousand other...
Priming the Pump. Spain's advocates could point out that Franco had really tried. Reluctantly admitting that his country could not achieve economic maturity outside the Common Market, he embarked on a deliberate policy of liberalization. Press censorship was eased; reactionary Falangist ministers were replaced by more open-minded officials; a recent trial of 33 political prisoners was held before a civilian rather than a military court-and some prisoners were even acquitted...
Spaniards who tuned in on news broadcasts last week got the surprise of a quarter-century. Since Francisco Franco installed himself as Spain's dictator in 1938, every newscast had unfailingly ended with a ponderous salute to his Falangist Party and a martial rendition of the Falangist anthem. Last week, for the first time, news bulletins ended instead with a pleasant feminine voice bidding señores y señoras good day, followed by a few bars of a catchy paso doble...
...death, but was released in a routine exchange of prisoners. He quickly joined Franco, was soon commanding a corps on the Pyrenees front. At the end of the war, Munoz Grandes, at Franco's behest, became secretary-general of the Fascist Falange, specifically to integrate the freewheeling Falangist militia into the Spanish army...