Word: hispanidad
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...Hispanidad is a curious, almost indefinable doctrine. Its present-day adherents preach that only by a spiritual union of the New World's Spanish-speaking countries with Roman Catholic Mother Spain can mankind be saved from godless Communists and heretical Anglo-Saxons. In Argentina, where the Peron regime until recently made much of its close kinship with Spain, the doctrine has won many a convert. But last week, hard on the heels of the failure of Argentina's trade agreement with Spain (TIME, April 25), a distinguished Argentine cleric was calling Hispanidad a lot of nonsense...
...Falange had set up its own form of Auslandsdienst to carry the gospel of Hispanidad to the New World and reestablish Spain as the dominant cultural, economic and political influence in Latin America. El Caudillo dreamed of empire. In this exuberant period, there must have been at least a half-dozen occasions when Falange extremists almost carried the day for war, for an imperialist adventure to unify and recreate Spain. But Franco always decided to wait a little longer...
They import from Spain tons of books and magazines. Propaganda is aided by several large Spanish publishing houses, by nearly a score of Fascist-controlled radio stations which regularly transmit Hispanidad propaganda under titles like "La Vos de Espana," "Espana de Hoy." Spanish films bring Hispanidad to the attention of the moviegoing masses; an increasing number of Spanish dancers, singers, artists stream to Buenos Aires to remind Argentines of the strong ties of Hispano-American culture...
...plenty of money, the support of thinly disguised Italian and German propaganda and sabotage organizations in Argentina and throughout Latin America. Perhaps more important than any of these is the support of the Church, which to many Argentines is unmistakably identified with the aims and progress of Hispanidad...
Lately the movement has received fresh and ironical support-from the U.S. Government itself. When Argentines read and hear that the U.S. is now appeasing Dictator Franco, they can hardly believe that Franco's Hispanidad is as bad as U.S. spokesmen make...