Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week celebrations all over Spain reminded Spaniards that three years had passed since General Franco flew from the Canary Islands to Morocco to launch the Civil War. The anniversary of the revolt was a bright, cool day that ended a heat wave. At the lunch hour, factory workers listened to the reading of decrees announcing a "fiesta for the exaltation of labor" and promising wages high enough to give the "humble classes" access to culture. All over Spain there were prayers and parades, masses and mass meetings, chants and cheers for Francisco Franco; all over Spain there were uniforms...
...that old Spaniards were still trying to run the show. Through 32 months of war and four months of peace, the same pre-war figures kept control of the State and the Army. No new military reputations were made on the Nationalist side of the war. Colorless, efficient General Franco was a familiar face in Spain long before the war, as were Generals Yague, Gómez Jordana, Aranda, Queipo de Llano, most of the old-line Monarchists, officeholders, Fascists, conservative Republicans who backed General Franco's revolt, grabbed posts in his Government. But Spain had changed more than...
Last week Edda Ciano's husband, Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, paid an official visit to Generalissimo Francisco Franco in Spain. The Countess for once did not go along. The Countess' father, Il Duce, was summering in central Italy at Rocca delle Caminate, still keeping the vow of silence he publicly took at Cuneo, in northern Italy, last May. Edda herself was at the island of Capri, across from the Bay of Naples, supervising the building of a villa at her (and the late Emperor Tiberius') favorite recreation spot...
...four papers remaining in Madrid, the morning Arriba and the evening Madrid are official organs of Serrano Suñer's Falangists. The other two, Ya (morning) and Informaciones (evening), are under editors named by the Government, which means by the Minister of the Interior, Franco's strong-man brother-in-law (el Cunadisimo), Ramón Serrano Sufier...
...less gentle than his treatment of the Rightist press has been Serrano Suñer's way of dealing with those journalists who supported the Republic. Last month all Spanish newspapermen got orders to present to the Government copies of what they had written against Franco during the civil war. By last week 35 of these journalists had been shot. Among the 35: Antonio Hermosilla, editor of Madrid's Leftist La Libertad; Modesto Sánchez Monreal, editor of Madrid's Leftish El Sol; Emilio Gabás, onetime editor of Madrid's El Socialista; Federico...