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Ultimately, Redrejo said the Spanish people, long passive under the Generalissimo's rule, will lose their fear and take the political initiative necessary to rid Spain of the anachronistic spectre of the army and other traditional reactionary forces. Only then will Spain enter the modern world, he said...
...more than one life. Caught in China's civil war, Chennault's outfit snarled Communist timetables of conquest by ferrying soldiers and supplies to the mainland. In the process, CAT became Nationalist China's civilian transport arm and the most shot-at airline in history. When Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan, CAT went along. From time to time, its crackerjack pilots moonlighted, accepting such missions as dropping French paratroopers into Dienbienphu...
...symbol, said the baby's father, of that region's graciousness and warmth. The water was flown in from the River Jordan. The minister was the Archbishop of Madrid, and the guests included members of three royal families (Greece, Bulgaria and Spain), two Spanish Cabinet ministers and Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Thus last week, in the 20-room Zarzuela Palace on the outskirts of Madrid, Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso y Todos los Santos de Borbón, who might by the 21st century sit on the Spanish throne, was freed from the bonds of original...
...occasion was Juan Carlos' 30th birthday, and he celebrated by cleaving a board with the edge of his hand. There was something else to celebrate too. The Prince is now, as far as age is concerned, eligible to become King, assuming that the monarchy is restored, after Generalissimo Francisco Franco steps down. The prince's father, Don Juan, 54, is, of course, first in line, and the prince loyally flew off to Portugal to spend his birthday with his father in exile...
...Middle Ages, the naming of new bishops had become the prerogative of Popes, who frequently reassigned the right to kings in return for political favors. A vestige of this procedure remains in the concordats that the church maintains with some traditionally Catholic countries; in Spain, for example, Generalissimo Franco has the right to designate nominees for vacant sees...