Word: franco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Spanish government takes time out to speak to the Opposition it calls on Dionisio Ridruejo. Yet, Ridruejo's speech at Harvard last week in Boylston Hall was his first public address in over three years. He remains one of the few men barred from speaking publicly in Franco's Spain, and since 1955 his name has not appeared in print in that country...
Until 1942, Ridruejo was a member of the Spanish fascist party, the Falange. That year he left the party and entered a period of introspection from which he was to emerge a democrat and a socialist, in complete opposition to Franco. His conversion is a source of his pre-eminent position within the opposition, for he criticizes the fascists after having been "one of them...
...problem of succession to Franco dominates all problems in Spain--political, economic and moral," he told an audience of over one hundred Faculty members and students. Redrejo spoke in Spanish...
...went on to say that if a fascist dictatorship were extended following Franco's death, the Spanish people would rise up in rebellion. The monarchy, on the other hand, can only be considered a temporary solution, he said...
Redrejo spent a good portion of the hour and a half lecture outlining the principle stages of the development of Spain under the Franco government from 1939 to the present. Although he described the political and economic situation in Spain throughout this period as dismal, he cited certain "hopeful" signs, in the student movements begun in 1956, and in the working class movement whose first major strike was held...