Word: franquistas
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Miguel Primo de Rivera, nephew of the founder of the blue-shirted Falange and a man with good Franquista credentials, made the initial defense of the political reform bill in the Cortes. "We are conscious of the fact," said Primo de Rivera, "that we must move from a personal regime to one of participation, without a break and without violence ... We must begin the future with optimism, without rancor for the past and without forgetting that we have an obligation to the present and the future...
...seized power last September. But his opposition is also lawless. One exiled Paraguayan is onetime Dictator Rafael Franco, who has been supporting himself manufacturing soap in a small apartment in Montevideo, Uruguay. Last week, through the censor ship that envelops remote Asunción, came reports of a Franquista revolt. Colonel Franco's brother Laconich hopped a plane from Montevideo for the Paraguayan capital, but at the request of General Morinigo's Government Montevideo police kept Rafael Franco where he was. A communiqué from Asunción announced that the up rising had been put down "with...