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...years later, at age 75, Pound went to China at the invitation of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to reorganize the judicial system there. He returned...
...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...
...question of Franco's succession remains cloudy if much discussed. At a rally several weeks ago, the Generalissimo announced without fanfare that he would continue to rule "as long as the Lord gives me strength. Many of the powers which are now mine are, because of their very nature, non-transferable." But twenty-five years after his victory the Caudillo is a weathered seventy-one. A hunting accident suffered several years ago brought the succession question to the front of everybody's mind. Since a 1947 plebescite--the only one during his reign--Franco has had the right to name...
From time to time the Generalissimo has shown interest in the establishment of some variety of authoritarian, presidential regime. He is a professed admirer of the Gaullist state and has moved regularly to better his relations with France. Clearly he appreciates the mystique and the personal power that the French general-president enjoys. Shortly after the hunting accident, Franco created the position of Vice Premier and filled it with his long time friend and fellow general, Augustin Munoz Grandes. A veteran of Madrid politics, Munoz Grandes is popular in the country but a scant four years younger than Franco...
...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...