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Falange's emergence from several years in the shadows. Spain's Dictator Franco rules by a shrewd playing off of three groups: army, church and party. When the Nazis and Fascists rode high, Generalissimo Francisco Franco let his Falange ride high. When Hitler and Mussolini were beaten, Franco discouraged the Falange's Fascist salute and uniformed parades, hoping thereby to gain a little credit with the victors of World War II. After a long, wily fight, his strategy paid off. He signed a concordat with the Vatican, a great gain for the church. (Last week Spain...
Camilo Jose Cela is a 37-year-old Spanish novelist with a rare distinction: although he fought in Generalissimo Franco's army during the civil war, joined the Falange and to this day lives and works under the Fascist regime, his novel about Madrid is being cheered by emigre Spanish Republicans. So rare a distinction stems from a rare quality. In the face of dictatorship, Novelist Cela has the courage to write the truth as he sees it and the talent to transform his merciless vision of contemporary Madrid into a series of Goya-like vignettes...
Like a general who has advanced too far, Treasury Secretary Humphrey, generalissimo of the Administration's war on easy money, decided it was time...
Next day presidential aides worked out the message that the U.S. Government would send to Moscow when death came. This was it: "The Government of the U.S. tenders its official condolences to the government of the U.S.S.R. on the death of Generalissimo Joseph Stalin, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union...
From the distance came the sound of funereal music and the muffle of treading feet. Then came the flower bearers from the Hall of Columns, hundreds of them. Soviet generals bore the Generalissimo's medals on red pillows. Next came a lone soldier on a jet black horse. Then eight more black horses pulling a gun carriage. There, framed in red for revolution and black for death, rode the coffin of Joseph Stalin, the dead man himself visible through its glass dome...