Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, little "tsar" of Andalusia, and General Juan Yagüe, commander of the Moroccan Army Corps, were dismissed from their posts, presumably because of too ardent opposition to the Fascist notions of the youthful, fiery Ramón Serrano Suñer, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Minister of the Interior and, next to the Generalissimo, Spain's most powerful figure. Last week the list of Señor Serrano Suñer's opponents grew to include, among others, such military stalwarts as Generals Miguel Aranda, hero of the Oviedo siege...
Behind flights, arrests, rumors, was the fight of the Falange and the Army, a conflict older than the peace. During the war, General Franco merged 3,000,000 Falangists-extreme Fascists-and 800,000 Carlists-conservative monarchists-into the Falange Espanola Tradicionalista de los Jons, a top-heavy Fascist party modeled on those of Italy and Germany. Reorganized, cleaned out, it had 1,700,000 rank & file members and 20,000 "militant members" made up of Generalissimo Franco's general staff, commissioned and non-commissioned officers in his Army, hand-picked pro-Franco members of the Falange...
...fastest-climbing of Europe's modern politicos. Now 37, a lawyer educated in Italy, Señor Serrano's pre-war claims to distinction were his service as a Catholic deputy in the Cortes, his marriage to handsome Señorita Polo, sister of Señora Franco. His war record included an escape from Madrid's Model Prison, a trip to Germany to be feted by Nazis. But in the 18 months that he has been Minister of the Interior, Senor Serrano has outshone his plodding, unimaginative brother-in-law, stolen the show from the Spanish...
...Symphony, has given it some $1,000,000 in 20 years, but this year felt obliged to reduce her contribution from $50,000 to $30,000-top donation in the drive. Moreover, the Symphony has sadly missed its late, lionized Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch, whose successors, Coconductors Victor Kolar and Franco Ghione, are competent but barely kittenized...
...insularity. "In such a state," he concludes, "what preoccupations can there be other than the desire to make money, and more money, and to keep it . . . with no thought for the world that crowds steadily in upon this would-be tight little island." He was in Spain when Franco drove to the Mediterranean in April 1938, when Barcelona fell. He visited Austria during the savage Jew-baiting that followed the Anschluss, attended the Evian Conference and pours scorn on it: "To the best of my knowledge and belief, no Jew who has escaped from the hell of life in Germany...