Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Esteban Franco...
Spaniards are referring to Franco as "Esteban" these days; when you ask them why, they look around furtively and explain gleefully: "Que se marche este bandido!" ["May this bandit get the hell...
...When Franco rose against the Republic, the old labor chieftain rushed to its defense, became head of the Government. He organized Madrid's defenses, armed the labor unions. He sounded like his old Barcelona anarchist competitors when he growled: "I would like to see every bricklayer go to work with his rifle slung on his shoulder. Then I know that nothing could exist in Spain except the will of the great mass of the Spaniards...
...Diligenti Quintuplets of Argentina-Carlos Alberto, Maria Ester, Maria Fernanda, María Cristina, and Franco-posed for photographers and looked like a fine quiver-full for Papa. Their dresses and ribbons looked like the same they wore for their second-birthday picture last July. But María Fernanda now asserted herself -with a spit curl...
Unless the democracies found a way to oust Franco without letting the Communists in, the son might prove wiser than the father...