Word: franco
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Official slogan of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's adherents during Spain's recent war was Una, Grande, Libre ("One, Great, Free"), a slogan borrowed from the great Ferdinand and Isabella. Last week Generalissimo Franco held his thrice-postponed Madrid victory parade and showed the world that Spain was great-at least in arms and men-but not necessarily "one" or "free...
Europe's three leading Fascist dictators have much in common, yet each has his individuality. Neither Führer Hitler nor Duce Mussolini would have organized the religious services which Catholic Caudillo Franco held next day in the little suburban Church of Santa Barbara. A choir of monks chanted age-old antiphons; 10,000 palms were strewn on the church steps; El Caudillo walked into the church under a white silk canopy held up by six priests. Before the high altar on which was placed a crucifix commemorating the great Hispano-Venetian naval victory at Lepanto in the 16th...
Three days of ceremonial ended when El Caudillo motored 30 miles west of Madrid to the vast and gloomy Monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial. There, in a large hall adjoining what were once the monastery's royal apartments, Generalissimo Franco received the diplomatic corps. Thus ceremonially ended Spain's third and bloodiest civil war of modern times...
...Last week it was announced that General Franco's foreign soldiers would soon go home, leaving their arms behind them...
...World Congress of Writers. Quietly and peaceably the writers filed into the egg-shaped, modernistic Hall of Music. But once inside, they threw down their pens with a bang heard in Berlin, Rome and Burgos, declared war to the last drop of ink on Dictators Hitler, Mussolini and Franco...