Word: francoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From three vital way stations, three TIME-correspondents last week sent in reports. Emmet Hughes, TIME'S Rome bureau chief, who has spent four years in Spain, recently returned to Franco territory and found, contrary to wishful predictions, that the Franco regime seemed fatter and more secure than ever. In Poland, John Scott (TIME'S Berlin bureau chief) found a shaky but surprisingly energetic prosperity. From China, TIME'S Nanking Correspondent Frederick Gruin told no story of prosperity, but one of lean and bitter struggle and inevitable retribution. The reports...
Resurrection of the Old Shirts. The average Spaniard is no worse off than a year ago. Basic prices have not risen since then. The year's crop was good, and Argentina is sending wheat. Franco is not threatened by an immediate economic crisis. Two years ago, with Naziism's defeat, the regime was panicky. One year ago it just began to recover. Today it is plain cocky...
...last month's general strike in the crucial industrial area of Bilbao, when some 35,000 men stayed home in protest against the provincial governor's punishment of workers who had observed May Day. But there is no power in Spain today that can seriously threaten Franco's rule...
...Franco rhetoric about "Christian democracy" has disappeared. Falangist "Old Shirts," supposedly displaced, are active again. Franco's phony succession law (which will permit him to appoint his own political heir) is practically being written by Falangists. Said Franco last week: "The Falange is . . . the soul of our national resurrection...
Blessings from the Little Man. Franco's confidence is enhanced by a number of factors. Chief among them is the Truman Doctrine, which has convinced his followers that the U.S. is now a friend of any anti-Communist force, no matter how reprehensible. Many Spaniards are asking how big their loan from Washington will be, $300 or $400 million...