Word: francoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...death sentences) considered whether or not Communism can be stopped by hanging its leaders, Iraqi Communists showed signs that they were still very much alive. Their secret presses, silent during the trial, got out a pamphlet protesting an "action which Hitler dared not take, and only the Franco regime can equal...
...crowd chanted "Perón! Perón! Perón!" Then some, apparently intoxicated by the familiar two-syllable rhythm, began to shout "Duce! Duce! Duce!" That brought counter-shouts of "Down with Franco! Down with Perón! Down with Fascism!" The abashed figure on the balcony heard it all; she was, Argentine officials said later, upset...
...Spain is a festering sore on the conscience of the Western powers." So writes Emmet John Hughes in the best-informed book* yet published on post-civil-war Spain. The present U.S. attitude toward Franco, says Author Hughes, "can only hasten the likelihood of civil war and facilitate the rapid growth of Communism in Spain. . . . The Western democracies have failed to evolve and express a clear, purposeful policy that would free Spain's democratic forces from the deadly Fascist-Communist cross fire in which they have been placed...
...Falange is not all-powerful. The Army and the Church hate and fear it. The three are held in uneasy alliance by the consummate skill of that underestimated little dictator, Francisco Franco, and by the inept and purely verbal opposition of the democracies...
Hughes points out that Army, Church and Falange stood together in the civil war, and that, therefore, any democratic opposition based on the origin of the Franco regime merely reminds these three very different forces of what they have in common. Democratic action against the Spanish Government based on its present practices might have the effect of widening the split between Army, Church and Falange. As long as the three institutions support Franco, the Spanish people (80% of whom Hughes marks down as opposing the regime) has little chance of liberation. Hughes's first book, The Church...