Word: francoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shaking the tree would help, long-overripe Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain was surely due to fall with the frosts...
...shaken vigorously at a typically spectacular rally in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. There Russian anger and British impatience with the lingering Fascist regime were semi-officially proclaimed. Cried Nikolai Novikov, Soviet charge d'affaires in the U.S.: "The peoples of the Soviet Union hope that General Franco, this hireling of Hitler and Mussolini, will receive what is coming to him and his regime of Fascist dictatorship will be abolished...
...radio from London, Harold J. Laski, British Labor's left-wing philosopher, told the rally: "Our peoples didn't make the immense sacrifices of this war to perpetuate either a tyranny like that of Franco, or an unedifying mythology like a Vatican-sponsored King of Spain trying hastily to learn the vocabulary of the Four Freedoms while making it painfully evident that he finds no meaning in the words...
Toasting the Caudillo in San Sebastian last week, General Juan Yague, Chief of the Sixth Region, said that Franco could count on Army support when "the evolution which is necessary is effected." By "evolution" General Yague meant a restoration of the monarchy. Although he fought on Franco's side in the Civil War, Yague had damned Axis intrusion in that war and urged a lenient peace for the Loyalists. In the midst of World War II he had spent some months under house arrest, apparently for monarchist activity...
Instead of slapping down this dubious toaster, Franco answered: "Evolution, yes, even if it were only to let me rest. I want this evolution to be a quick one, but it is going to be myself who will say when and how it will be effected...