Word: francoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment of force. Liberals, having healed the division that cost them the presidency in 1946, used their congressional majority to push the election date seven months forward in expectation of victory. The Conservative reply, in an atmosphere hot with political passion, was to choose their most inflammatory rightist, Franco-loving Laureano Gomez, as their nominee, and to throw every government resource into his campaign...
...spite of Italy's veneer of Americanism, however, a tourist feels more an outsider there than in Franco or England. The monuments and the works of art he has come to see are completely unrelated to the realities of post-war Italy: the beggars, the unemployment, the poverty, the ruins. Many of the rivers are still spanned by U. S. army Bailey bridges set on the bombed rubble on ancient edi- fices. Inflation is particularly bad in Italy--the lira is a mere fiftieth of its prewar value. American wallets were much too small for the wads of paper money...
...Spain is suffering so badly, just how does Dictator Franco manage so keep his subjects content? One reason is the complete censorship of foreign news and films, (even Western stage drama is carefully screened), so that the people are kept in ignorance, and can be tuned to official propaganda. Another reason is that the Army is kept large and happy. All bank entrances, sports events, and small gatherings are well attended by Franco's neat, prosperous, green-uniform "Guardia Civil...
...screaming: "We want the head of Laureano!" At that time Laureano was presiding over the Bogota hemispheric conference as Colombia's foreign minister. He barely escaped the rioters (they burned down his house and the plant of his newspaper El Siglo) and took refuge for a year in Franco Spain...
...absolutely chaste. It was not until he was sixteen that he had his first liaison, with the lovely E ..." A mother who thought 16 an advanced age for the beginning of love was hardly likely to overtrain him in discipline. Accordingly, when the family lost its fortune in the Franco-Prussian war and Guy had to become a clerk in Paris, he complained bitterly...