Word: francoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once, Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco found himself in the same boat with President Harry Truman. Franco, too, was being accused by church leaders of violating the Constitution to favor a religious minority. Franco's needlers were Roman Catholics who claimed that he was coddling Protestants...
Even more disturbing to the Communion was the recent statement made by Franco himself to a U.S. admirer, Publicist Merwin K. Hart. Franco told Hart that "other faiths which are not Catholic enjoy liberty in Spain. . . ." Said the letter of protest: "It is evident that the chapels about which the Chief of State spoke . . . constitute public exercises of cult, against the letter and spirit of the formula accepted by Rome. . . . These facts constitute a new attack on Catholic unity. The argument given that these declarations are necessary because of the campaign abroad by elements opposed to our country must...
...classic first step by which dictatorship is imposed upon a people. By its very nature, dictatorship moves inexorably to stifle the voice of a free press and to destroy the sources of trustworthy information. . . . In following in this respect the pattern endorsed by Stalin and Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, Señor Perón has embarked on a course of infinite danger to his country...
...Author. Aging (62) François Mauriac, a leading Roman Catholic opponent of the Franco regime in Spain, joined the resistance movement during World War II. Producing clandestine pamphlets, newspapers and books with such fellow writers & artists as Communist Poet Louis Aragon, he learned to respect the fighting qualities of the Communists. After the war he sought for a way to bring the U.S. and Russia together, has since decided that compromise is impossible. He now writes editorials for Paris' conservative daily Figaro, advocating a strong, vigilant western world under U.S. leadership...
...marked down from $2.90, turned out to be mostly large, splashy flower designs in reds, greens and blues, and was of Egyptian manufacture. It went fast, for dresses. Gromyko satin, marked down from $2.41, came in solid pastels. Somewhat unfortunately (for political verisimilitude), Gromyko satin had been made in Franco Spain. But it was selling well, too, chiefly for nighties, housecoats, slips and panties...