Word: falangists
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...Adolfo Munoz Alonso, Spanish theologian and philosophy professor at the University of Madrid, found some Protestant leaflets in his morning's mail and went off like a cobalt bomb. Such literature, he wrote in the Falangist daily Arriba, is "simply an insult. This is not a social and political outrage but something even more repulsive-a lack of consideration." Nowadays, he wrote, Protestantism is not even a faith, "not a positive doctrine but a negative one. It is not an attempt at moral, spiritual or religious reform, nor an individualist explanation of the Gospel. Today Protestantism has lost...
...week's end, disturbed by "malicious speculation" abroad about the monarchy, Dictator Franco issued an interview in the Falangist Arriba, reassuring his Fascist supporters that in thinking about restoration of the monarchy he does not have in mind a "liberal or parliamentary" monarchy, but one which will "incarnate the principles of unity and authority" held by those "of the Catholic confession." Being a King of Spain never was a comfortable...
...parents in Estoril, Portugal. The question, already taken up in an exchange of letters through ducal couriers, was how the slim, shy, blond Juanito should be trained as absolute monarch over what may well prove to be a turbulent Spain. Franco gave Don Juan a fill in on latterday Falangist philosophy, talked about Spain's need for autocratic rule in order to avoid opening the door to "chaos" (i.e., democracy). The way to make an autocrat out of Juanito: intense military and religious" training...
Government officials hurriedly convened in local Falangist headquarters, saw to it that the courtroom was packed with Falangists and plainclothesmen as the second day's proceedings opened. Ordinary Vitorians could not get in. Secretly the trial was rushed to an end that spelled defeat for the prosecution. Last week, although the prosecution had demanded severe sentences for all, 15 of the accused were acquitted or released with light sentences that they were deemed to have already served. Two were sentenced to six years in prison. When the defense lawyers came out, an old woman seized Lacort's hand...
...affirmed that he was a musician and no writer. Perhaps, he explained, this accounted for the fact that he wrote something he really did not mean. His only aim had been to push and incite Spain's composers towards better production. Moreover, he had always been a convinced Falangist who "owes his personal peace, the peace of his family and the peace of his country to Franco and the Falangist movement." Concluded Argenta: "Far be it from me to dare criticize the musical activities of the regime I serve with my whole heart...