Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government-organized demonstrations against the U.N. were impressive. In Madrid (see cut) 100,000 herded into the Plaza de Oriente to hear Franco. In Barcelona more than 100,000 marched down the Paseo de Gracia in the icy winter sunshine. The raised-arm salute was used only once (it has been replaced by waving white handkerchiefs). But the barked "Franco, Franco, Franco!" is still used with almost hypnotic effect. Signs carried included one showing a man preparing to lower his trousers and a dog lifting his leg over the letters "U.N.O...
Spanish opponents of Franco, right and left, are currently in an apathetic, hopeless mood. They are bitterly disappointed at the U.N. resolution. Said a wealthy, anti-Franco monarchist: "I find this resolution to be a comedy. I do not think the United States or Britain want to upset Franco until they make some permanent arrangement with Russia...
Said a well-to-do Mason (out on parole from a twelve-year jail sentence): "Why don't you declare an economic blockage? It would be better to suffer a few months that way than to suffer Franco a few years more...
...London, "an authoritative government source" said the British were talking to centrists inside Spain in an effort to form an anti-Franco coalition government...
...years ago this winter, the siege of Madrid by Franco's army foreshadowed the hell that all Europe was to suffer. Sooner or later, the rest of the world realized that Spain had been victimized, but it was slower in learning how Spain had got herself in for it. The purely Spanish background of the Civil War has never been aired enough, though Spanish historians like Salvador de Madariaga have insisted on its importance. One of the few books to put light on the background is this long autobiography by an exiled Spaniard. It is valuable because it reflects...