Word: requet
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...Carlos, and ever since, his descendants and their supporters have been trying bravely but futilely to seize power. The Carlists are the most rabid and fanatic rightists in Spain, and their political ideas seldom go beyond reviving the Inquisition. Though they view Franco as a woolly liberal, los Requetés, the rugged Carlist fighting men, nevertheless provided El Caudillo with some of the best battalions he ever had in the Spanish Civil...
...Traditionalists-also called Carlists, these are fanatical reactionaries who supplied the Requetés, toughest fighters in Franco's ranks during the civil war. Now they violently oppose the political program of the Falange, with which they are technically linked...
...both. Along the broad, tree-lined Gran Via and the busy Calle de Alcala leading to the Puerta del Sol, from new flagpoles fluttered thousands of the red-&-gold flags, flanked by the emblems of Spain's single Fascist party, the Falange Espanola, and of the traditionalist Requetés. Each pole bore the single word...
Last week one of the camps of Spanish refugee volunteers in France near the Spanish frontier heard that the frontier was closed, that there was street fighting in northern Spain between Falangists and Requetés. That night three of the refugees slipped across the frontier with two submachine guns and one machine gun. Next day the entire Spanish battalion was in a ferment and the volunteers sat out on the beach singing civil-war songs and talking of mass desertion. The French prudently transferred the entire camp to Valbonne, north of Lyon...
Five months ago the "Nationalists" won the Spanish Civil War. They were as strange a mixture as can be found in a Catalan bouillabaisse: Bourbon Generals and aristocrats, plutocrats, devout and royalist Carlist Requetés, radical Fascist Falangists, Moors, Germans, Italians...