Word: francoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Spaniards agree that if Franco could bring down the price of food, the country would accept his police state without too much grumbling...
...staff of Franco support is the Army-an estimated 500,000 men, pampered and reasonably well equipped. The families of every officer and soldier above the rank of private can purchase good food at government prices in the economatos or commissaries. Much of this promptly reaches the black market. No significant dissatisfaction with Franco is apparent in Spain's army. Remarked one Spaniard with a shrug: "Why should there be? They have never lived better in their lives...
...Could Happen There. Under the combined pressures of high food prices and economic deterioration, "something" could happen to Franco's rule. What would it be? Mass revolution is the least likely. Leftist hopes for a Spanish refugee invasion from France are dreamboats. The exiled republican government of ex-pharmacy Professor José Giral carries little weight in Spain...
...economic pressures forced some action, then Franco would probably step aside for a junta of generals-with military and police controls clamping down tighter than ever. Restoration of the monarchy might follow...
...Franco, Franco, Franco!" The U.N. resolution, seized upon by Franco's expert propaganda machine, appealed to the xenophobia in every Spaniard. Many rallied to the Chief of State just to confound the foreigners who were trying to tell Spaniards what...