Word: francos
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Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco broke off his uneasy five-year ad venture into liberalism last week by clamping a state of emergency on his increasingly restive nation. The move came after fiery student demonstrations in Madrid and Barcelona; the regime charged that students had been misled by "wicked and ambitious persons" employing a "strategy aimed at producing an orgy of nihilism, anarchism and disobedience." Student unrest, however, was only part of the story. During the past sev eral years, the long quiescent opposition to Franco had taken on sufficient stat ure to cause serious worry among the conservatives...
...five articles of Spain's Bill of Rights were suspended for a 90-day period, and if trouble continues, Franco al most certainly will extend the state of siege for as long as he deems nec essary. Clearly, the Madrid government had been deeply impressed by the French explosion last May, and was determined to choke off any similar uprising...
Romeo and Juliet, Franco Zeffirelli's second film, is an honorable job of audience, grabbing romanticism, a fascinating and valid reading of the text (particularly those parts which concern Juliet), and a hell...
Thomas' pacifism wavered during the Spanish Civil War, when he sympathized with the loyalist opposition to Franco. But it led him to speak against the U.S. intervention in World War II before isolationist America First audiences, because he feared that entry into the war would bring about fascism at home. Later, however, he concluded that an Axis triumph would condemn the world to the "lowest circle of hell," and gave "critical support" to the war. But when the U.S. used the atomic bomb against Japan, he cried out in protest...
Died. Colonel Segismundo Casado, 75, Spanish Loyalist officer who in the closing days of the Civil War seized Madrid and surrendered the city to Franco in hopes of ending the bloodshed; of a heart attack; in Madrid. One of the few professional officers to march under the Loyalist banner, Casado was nevertheless distrustful of the Communists in Loyalist forces; in 1939, when the Reds vowed to defend Madrid to the death, he turned on his former allies and imprisoned their leaders, thus effectively ending the battle...