Word: falangists
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Madrid's political and art circles were shaken. Any comparison between "before" and "after" should conclude with words of praise for "after" in today's Spain. Infuriated composers were only too happy to plunge the matter headlong into politics. Even blind Maestro Joaquin Rodrigo, the only Falangist composer esteemed by Argenta, wrote: "Argenta is definitely wrong. A good Spaniard has the duty as a musician and comrade to keep faith in the music of his country...
...terraced city of Tetuan, 10.000 Arabs and Berber tribesmen chanted Viva Espana! and begged Spain's help in throwing off 50 years of French authority in Morocco. In Madrid. Falangist hoodlums stoned the British embassy; in Seville, they screamed "Franco! Franco! We want Gibraltar." All last week, in an outburst of diplomatic orneriness, Spain set out to antagonize its neighbors...
...When Falangist leaders came to him recently, wanting some signs of favor too, Franco hesitated at first, then permitted the big national convention. It was time to show that the Falange was still very much alive, that no outsiders could tell Dictator Franco how to dictate...
...shirts out of mothballs and stage a rally of the old guard. Labor Minister Jose Antonio Giron, leader of the Falange extremists, was all for it, but there was opposition from 1) Falange moderates, happy in their cushy government jobs; 2) the monarchists, who fear that a reawakening of Falangist activity may mean the end of Pretender Don Juan's chances of getting the throne; 3) the army, one of whose spokesmen said: "We prefer commemorating wars in which the beaten enemy was a foreign invader, not misled countrymen"; 4) the church, expressing itself through a Catholic Action leader...
...make the fleet feel at home. A U.S. sailor's white hat was enough to get him free streetcar rides, free tickets for movies; wine was on the house in many flamenco joints. No one took exception to U.S.N. wolf-whistles at the señoritas. The Falangist Informacion Nacional helpfully printed, in its own enthusiastic English, the complete text of President Truman's State of the Union "Speack." Falangist party bigwigs were ordered not to wear their black uniforms, or to give their Fascist salute while visiting U.S. ships...