Word: francos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most eligible bachelors. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), blue-eyed and athletic, he has one added, increasingly rare attraction: a slightly better than outside chance that he will some day sit on a throne. His father is the Spanish Pretender, Don Juan de Borbón, who, Franco has more or less promised, may in due course be allowed to become King of Spain, and young Prince Juan Carlos might presumably some day succeed him. In the meantime, Franco has looked after Juan Carlos' education at Spain's army, navy and air force academies, where the conscientious prince...
...debate veered back and forth between East-West differences and the Franco-Tunisian dispute, the Assembly dwindled to as few as one-third of its 99 members. The delegation from France never appeared at all, since Charles de Gaulle had ordered a U.N. boycott. Presumably to underscore French indifference, word was passed that none of the French delegates even planned to listen to the session on radio. The biggest blow for President Charles de Gaulle came when all eleven African states of the normally pro-French Brazzaville group decided to vote against France...
Beedle Smith was a bootstrap soldier. He rose to the top of his profession without ever attending either West Point or college. As a small boy in Indianapolis, he listened to the vivid recollections of his German grandfather, a veteran of the Franco-Prussian War, and decided he would become a soldier. At 15, he joined the Indiana National Guard. When World War I began in Europe, Sergeant Major Smith reluctantly refused a commission in the Regular Army because his family could not afford to buy his uniforms. But after the U.S. entered the war, he won his shoulder bars...
...Spanish Civil War, that cruel testing ground for World War II, is now years past. The rest of the world passed on to bigger cataclysms and newer conflicts, but in Spain, the old antagonisms still color the landscape. When Generalissimo Francisco Franco's rebel troops finally triumphed, nearly 300,000 Loyalists landed behind bars as political prisoners. The number in jail has steadily declined. Some prisoners have been freed in amnesties. In 1958, to celebrate the coronation of Pope John XXIII, Franco released all prisoners with two years or less to serve. More have earned their freedom the hard...
Western observers were understandably skeptical. For one thing, at the beginning of the year Spain officially owned up to 1,068 political prisoners in a total prison population of 15,000. Franco, perennially bidding to be recognized as the West's favorite dictator, may simply have rejuggled some of his political prisoners into criminal classifications. Hardly had Herreros sat down than word came from Barcelona of two trials for "military rebellion," Franco's euphemism for anti-Franco activity. An Israeli, a Frenchman and 13 Spaniards were given sentences of one to twelve years in jail...