Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also receives a steady parade of his subjects, who are driven by the busload from Spain...
...there is no guarantee that Don Juan will ever get the call. A believer in representative government, he has never approved of Franco, and for good reason refuses to live in Spain: he does not want to be under the shad ow of the Caudillo. As a result, he is cordially distrusted by many Franco stalwarts. Much more manageable, they feel, would be Don Juan's handsome son, Prince Juan Carlos, 27; Franco sent him through Spain's three military academies and gave him a Madrid palace after his wedding to Greek Princess Sophie. Trouble is, Juan Carlos...
Time is the most important factor. It is to the length of one man's life, and the rapidity of his action, that the continuity of Spain's economic, social and political advancement is tied. True democracy in the Western sense may not be on the horizon, for Franco believes - and many of his enemies agree - that Spaniards are so strong-willed that they need a firm hand to keep them in line. The fear is that if Franco disap pears before he has put his house in order, the social fabric of Spain will be stretched...
...however, Franco lives long enough and acts fast enough, and if the econo my keeps laying its golden eggs, Spain's future is bright, indeed. Which is why it is so important that Spain's present boom continue. A few more years of rising prosperity could easily instill the feeling of general well being on which, in anarchist Spain at least, real political maturity must be based...
...Spain itself has never had a King Juan, but four Juans have ruled in the land, two each in the ancient kingdoms of Castile and Aragon. Most famous of them were Juan II of Aragon, father of King Ferdinand, and Juan II of Castile and Leon, father of Queen Isabella...