Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Police State. Spain's badly paid but disciplined soldiers and the bronzed, rifle-carrying Guardia Civil men, in their tricorn
...Caudillo himself has mellowed, but he has lost none of the crafty skill or un derlying steel. Every coin of the nation still bears his image and the words. "Chief of Spain by the Grace of God." Puritani cal and pious, he sometimes prays for hours in his private chapel in Pardo pal ace before making major decisions ; to in duce night-loving, late-eating Spaniards to follow his own early-to-bed habit, he has ordered Madrid restaurants and cafes to stop serving food after midnight...
Political Spectrum. Whatever the un rest that is disturbing the Franco regime, it has so far not benefited Spain's splintered political parties, which are hardly parties in the usual sense. They operate in a vacuum, with no means of reaching the Spanish people, and they suffer from that fierce individualism that turns any three Spaniards meeting on a street corner into a new political faction...
...stripes arrived from Spain, joining 38 prominent Spanish exiles. Most noted: brilliant Philosopher Salvador de Madariaga. Republican Spain's most famous cabinet minister and diplomat, and now an honorary fellow at Oxford. Many of the Spaniards were bitter rivals and a? divided as ever on a future policy for their country. But in an emotional scene, Madariaga submitted a resolution on behalf of all Spaniards present, and Gil Robles rose to endorse...
...that Europe cannot accept in its midst a state where Socrates is poisoned every day and Christ is crucified every day." Applause punctuated his words as he concluded: "One hundred and eighteen come with their hands outstretched to Europe, and Europe should open its arms to receive them. Spain wants to give itself to Europe, but before it can do so, Spaniards must own their own country...