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...trying to break with the parasitic and feudal control exercized by the church, the military caudillos and the landowning bourgeoisie. Since the Republic represented a threat to their existence, the plot for the destruction of Spanish democracy was hatched in April of 1931. Franco had joined the right-wing monarchist plot against the Republic as far back as the summer...
...AREILZA, the Count of Motrico, 65, a monarchist, former Ambassador to Washington and Paris and adviser to Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, father of Juan Carlos and still a potential factor in a new Spanish political equation...
Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon cannot establish a monarchy in Spain, Marichal said, because of the high percentage of liberals in the Spanish bureaucracy, a general desire to avoid another civil war, the implacable leftist sentiments of Basque and Catalan separatists, and the lack of strong monarchist sentiments...
...mini-coups erupted: bakers, lawyers, engineers, journalists and architects ousted the leaders of their unions. Workers took over factories or else demanded huge wage increases-often up to 200%. An alphabet soup of initials covered walls, posters and newspapers, as scores of political parties were formed, ranging from monarchist to Maoist. More ominously, the much persecuted Communist Party (see box page 28) emerged from the underground as the nation's most dedicated and cohesive political organization...
...will have to cope with an inflation rate of 30%, land and labor reforms, and a cumbersome bureaucracy. A political moderate who served as ambassador to the U.S. during World War II and was Prime Minister once before for a brief period in 1945, he is a strong monarchist and a distant cousin of the King...