Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ninth anniversary of Spain's Civil War, Franco announced to the National Council of the Spanish Falange (fascist) Party the first step in his plan to adjust Spanish policy to the world's new climate: Spain, as a Catholic State, would in due course return to its traditional monarchy. When the time came for the dynasty to replace the dictator, the Cortes would receive its instructions...
...Switzerland royalist eardrums were strained almost to the bursting point. But the awaited word was not heard. Franco, though clearly a monarchist, had failed to say who would be king-or when...
Juan was "not impressed" by the Franco performance. He pointed instead to his own manifesto of last March (TIME, April 2), urging Franco to resign and make way for a democratic monarchy. In a Pretender, patience and perseverance are almost prerequisites, and in his 14 years abroad Don Juan had learned to wait...
...might have to wait some time. For at week's end Generalissimo Franco played his own prince. Through "informed diplomatic quarters" he let it be known that he was thinking of offering the kingship to Prince Alfonso Jaime, 9, son of Pretender Don Juan's elder (and deaf) brother Don Jaime, 37, who renounced his claim to the throne...
...Diligent! Quintuplets* - Carlos Alberto, Maria Ester, Maria Cristina, Maria Fernanda and Franco-emerged with a scrubbed-face bang from their well-preserved privacy. Occasion: their second birthday, energetically celebrated (see cut) at their home in Buenos Aires...