Word: francos
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...BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests are Singer Harry Belafonte. Tenor Franco Corelli and Pianist Grant Johannesen. Color...
...Ferdinand's younger brother Don Carlos, and ever since, his descendants and their supporters have been trying bravely but futilely to seize power. The Carlists are the most rabid and fanatic rightists in Spain, and their political ideas seldom go beyond reviving the Inquisition. Though they view Franco as a woolly liberal, los Requetés, the rugged Carlist fighting men, nevertheless provided El Caudillo with some of the best battalions he ever had in the Spanish Civil...
...Handsome Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, 26, grandson of Alfonso XIII, the last King of Spain, who was deposed in 1931. His father, Don Juan, has never formally withdrawn his claim to the throne, but has long been in Franco's bad graces. Juan Carlos, married to Princess Sophie of Greece, is supported by Spain's grandees, higher clergy and bankers, but has little popular following in the country...
Though Generalissimo Francisco Franco has ruled Spain for 25 years, he has always insisted that the country is a monarchy, his own role merely that of a regent who would ultimately restore the king. Which one? Franco personally seems to incline toward Juan Carlos and reportedly intends to step down in 1968, when he will be 75 and Juan Carlos a mature 30. But Franco is also deeply indebted to the Carlists for their sturdy support in his war against the Spanish republic. Moreover, Prince Carlos Hugo's marriage to Princess Irene establishes a link, however tenuous, with...
...part of the "Twenty-Five Years of Peace" celebration, Franco has declared amnesty for all Republicans whose "crimes" antedate the end of the civil war. The Generalissimo evidently hopes that the war and its pains can now be forgotten. With forgetfulness, though, will come a change in Spanish politics. The generation reaching maturity now was born after the war. They will be armed with a new set of expectations not tempered by the memory of violence. Their politics, their response to the passing of Franco, is not likely to be quiet. To them and to history, the Generalissimo's "Twenty...