Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Generalissimo Francisco Franco was good & mad, according to reports seeping from his Madrid palace. Why, he angrily demanded of his advisers, had they kept him ignorant of the people's impatience over the soaring cost of living? The Barcelona protest strike (TIME, March 19) had come as a shock. The dictator's underlings lamely explained that they had not bothered him with details because they had hoped to clear the situation up before news of it reached his ears...
...Madrid's Mayor Moreno Torres gave an example of the regime's difficulties. The capital's milk distributors, he said, were selling 40% more milk than was brought into the city each day. The mayor's theory: water had been added to the milk. Apparently, he had been unwilling, or unable, to do anything about...
Barea, a non-Communist Loyalist who fled to England when Franco won the Civil War, writes of a non-Communist Loyalist's return to Madrid from England in 1949. Don Antolin Moreno bad abandoned his wife, two sons, and daughter in fleeing for his life. Armed with British naturalization papers and passport, he dares return to try to take charge of his family and to discharge his responsibilities...
...Madrid a few days before the strike, a newspaper called Voz Social, published by Juan Aparicio López, Falangist editor of the official trade-union organ, Pueblo, made its first (and probably its last) appearance. It violently attacked social and economic conditions under the banner heading: "Clothing, shelter and homes can wait-but food cannot." The Voz Social editorial pointed out that through the offices of ministerial employees, it was a simple matter for black marketeers to obtain import licenses for splendid American convertibles, while farmers were unable to get licenses for tractors; that the building of hospitals...
...Madrid, Franco called an emergency cabinet meeting to cope with the outbreak...