Word: francos
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...quarter of a century since the war Spain's ruler has been the stocky, mustached Francisco Franco Bahamonde, Caudillo, Jefe del Estado, Prime Minister, Generalissimo of the Armed Forces, Regent of the Kingdom, and President of the Falange. Franco inaugurated a year of memorial celebrations--"Twenty-Five Years of Peace"--earlier this month with a service at the Holy Cross Basilica, a multi-million dollar monument to the war dead. The service will be followed by a year-long continuum of fairs, parades, dances, and patriotic exhibitions. "As tragic as were the dead," commented the government's Director-General...
Spanish unity today is entirely Franco's creation, for he rules the nation alone. The national assembly, the Cortes, is a consultative body at best, meeting infrequently with little public debate. Much legislation, in fact, never goes before it. The Generalissimo can make law by publishing any order in the government gazette, the Boletin Oficial del Estado. The cabinet plays a more important role in the business of state but it, too, is subject to Franco's whim. At its bi-weekly meetings Franco presides benevolently. "The Caudillo patiently listens," writes a junior minister, "while government members argue at length...
Spain has long been the economic backwater of Europe, and Franco has done little to change this in his quarter century of rule. Living conditions remain extremely poor by western standards. Labor organizations, like political organizations, continue to be illegal. Industrial growth has been slow, and antique farming methods remain the practice in most parts of the nation...
Gates added that "I think Franco's going to be overthrown and I think democracy will come back into power in Spain. I hope we in America will help democracy return to Spain...
...said that the United States government has identified itself with the Franco regime and because of this there is little love for the U.S. in Spain...