Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Mrs. Stassen's mother and sister moved in with the Governor's wife and two children. There was a final testimonial dinner, a last confab with G.O.P. leaders. Then Ed Thye took the oath as Governor. His platform: continue the Stassen administration...
...scarred country last week. Before El Caudillo in Madrid's El Prado Palace stood four Roman Catholic prelates, the Bishops of Barcelona, Ciudad Real, Jaén and Salamanca. They were there to do what none of their predecessors had done since medieval days: take an oath of fealty to the head of the Spanish State...
...dictator's ears came the pleasant words of the oath: "Before God and the Holy Gospel, I swear and promise, as bents a Bishop, fidelity to the Spanish State...
...This oath, as well as Franco's right to nominate new Bishops, is part of the accord which Franco made with the Vati can in 1941. The four bishops, the first nominated under the agreement, are also the first to swear the oath...
...first glance, such an oath-practically making each Bishop a local Franco agent-would seem superfluous in Catholic Spain. But people in the Basque and Catalan provinces (hotbeds of Loyalism during the Civil War) still dislike El Caudillo, show it openly now & then. To whip these malcontents into line, Franco has adopted the age-old custom of giving the Church a role to play in his political drama...