Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were hardly mentioned. While police observers sat by, pencils racing, Joaquin de Satrústegúi, a wealthy Basque lawyer, launched into a go-minute attack on the government of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Franco, declared Lawyer Satrústegúi, had no legal mandate whatsoever to rule Spain in the first place. Worse yet. "years and years have passed, and he has never asked Spaniards their own opinion of what should be done for Spain, and there is a great disgust among the people...
...Puerta del Sol police headquarters to explain himself. Released after two hours' questioning, Satrústegui emerged exultant. "The government is now weak," he said. "It cannot arrest me without doing great harm to itself." Satrústegui's remarks strongly suggested that the regime of Spain's 66-year-old Caudillo (leader) was in trouble-more trouble than usual. To some degree...
Reading the Signs. Despite the $1 billion which the U.S. has pumped into the Spanish economy since 1951, Spain, by a marvel of mismanagement, is in serious economic straits. In two years, the cost of living has jumped 40%, and prices are still rising. Spanish gold reserves are down to a skimpy $57 million; dollar reserves are virtually exhausted. And despite an official ban on the existence of any political party except Franco's decrepit Falange, Spain abounds in opposition groups. Well known to Franco's police, they range from a clutch of monarchist factions to syndicalists...
...Socialists command anything approaching mass support, and the Socialists are rent by a division between a new generation of Socialists and their leaders in Toulouse, who fought the Spanish Civil War, but are now out of touch. Except for the Communists, almost all opposition groups are willing to see Spain's Bourbon monarchy restored, though only to reign, not to rule. Franco himself is committed to restoration of a king (probably 45-year-old Don Juan de Bourbon), though only after "the Caudillo is no longer with us because God wills it so." Result is that Franco...
...book was censored in Spain, and in some ways Author Goytisolo's hot-blooded young assassins are unmistakably Spanish. But there are gangs like the one he describes in just about every large city in the world. The Young Assassins has the virtue of sympathetically describing youth's restlessness in a static society. Its weakness is its failure to dramatize psychological motives, which its author is precocious enough to sense but not mature enough to understand...