Word: francos
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Trouble is building up again for Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco. Ten weeks after settlement of the first successful strike in El Candillo's 25-year reign, the tough coal miners of Asturias once more were leaving the pits, pressing demands for a five-day week and calling for still more cash to add to their newly won wage increases. At week's end 10,000 workers at 15 mines were...
...that were not enough, the protest bombs of Franco's bitter political enemies were exploding anew in the streets of Spanish cities. There were blasts outside newspaper offices in Madrid and Barcelona; the increasing boldness of the regime's opposition was amply illustrated when another explosion shattered the windows of Franco's summer palace on the outskirts of San Sebastian. To the relief of the police. El Caudillo was off on a fishing trip at the time...
Ironically, the strikes and bombings came as the Franco government was showing continuing signs of a more liberal policy (TIME, July 20). For one thing, a new Minister of Information. Manuel Fraga Iribarne, was making things a bit easier for Spanish newspaper editors. Over the years, they have been accustomed to tight censorship of each edition; Madrid and Barcelona papers still are required to send proofs to the censor for approval, but they report that now there is less tinkering with the stories. Fraga claims he no longer sends out consignas, orders requiring the printing of specific articles. Liberalism...
Looking back on the grueling work and tragic loss of life, Italian Operations Chief Loris Corbi spoke for his half of the vast Franco-Italian project: "This event is like a chorus, now sad, then happy, sometimes soft and sometimes loud, sung by all the people of Italy for all the people of Europe...
...understandably a wide one. Many of them, perhaps most, were concocted by second- or third-rate hacks, destined to make less than a ripple on theatrical tides with endless variations on the inevitable flagrant delit, or with revues and vaudevilles based on evanescent issues of the moment: the Franco-Russian Alliance, X-rays, the Parisian Metro, and the like. Others however, were constructed by comic dramatists of genuine wit and ability, humorists like Georges Feydeau, Tristan Bernard and Georges Courteline. If such authors may never be credited with bringing about any major revolutions in the French (or World) theatre, they...