Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the Nazi and Fascist pillars of Franco's regime have crumbled, what sustains...
...losing camp, he has thus far persuaded the generals to let him decide the time for a restoration. Meanwhile, he enjoys the old Bourbon palaces, hunts and fishes in the old Bourbon parks. When his wife entertains at tea, a butler in white gloves serves Señora Franco first, then doffs the gloves to pour for the guests...
Spain's totalitarian party, the Falange, of which Franco is Caudillo (leader), is another prop. After seven years, it has a strong influence over Spanish youth and a stranglehold on the nation's totally regimented, venally exploited economy. The Falange's mass base is weak (5% to 10% of the population), but most big landowners and businessmen, who live in dread of a mass uprising, give it their allegiance...
...Power. Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde has never suffered from pallid faith in his own star. "God is with me," he said in public last September, "and those God helps along never fail to win." His path to totalitarian power has been religious and ruthless, stubborn and supple, medieval and modern, simple and complex. For almost three decades he has been a man of violence and inquisitorial intolerance. He hunts wild boars and rojos ("reds," meaning practically all political opponents) with equal intensity. Yet he has seldom failed to say a nightly rosary with his wife Carmen...
...Glory. Spain was still a feudal monarchy, its last shred of ancient grandeur dispelled by Yankee ironclads at Santiago and Manila Bay, when Francisco Franco first took notice of his star. By family and caste tradition he should have been a sailor. Because Spain was too poor to afford any more naval officers, he became a soldier. From seaside El Ferrel, in his native Galicia, he went to the Alcazar military school in Toledo. In 1912, at 20, he was a slender, shiny-eyed captain getting his baptism of fire and helping carve a new Spanish empire in Morocco...