Word: tradicionalista
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Thin, nervous, ambitious Don Ramón Serrano Suñer found the road to success was comparatively easy. While his fat-bottomed brother-in-law, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, was crushing Spanish Loyalists, Serrano skulked behind the lines, building up the Falange Espanola Tradicionalista. As head Falangista, Serrano controlled Spain's sole political party with a claimed membership of some 2,500,000. As head of the Ministry of Press and Propaganda he controlled what all Spaniards (supposedly) read and thought. As Minister of the Interior he controlled what they ate and when they went to prison. When...
...Foreign Minister, Franco named blond, blue-eyed General Francisco Gómez Jordana y Souza, an anti-Falangist Tradicionalista who was Foreign Minister when the U.S. recognized Franco's Government in 1939. Count Gómez Jordana is considered less pro-Axis than Serrano but was loudly pro-German in World...
...officially reported that Spain had at last concluded an accord with the Vatican and unofficially reported that Generalissimo Francisco Franco had won the right to appoint Spanish bishops (see p. 65). With this feather in its beret, Spain's one party, the Falange Española Tradicionalista, which has fought to make the Spanish Catholic Church, not Roman, but Spanish, next day won an even greater victory: success in the long tug of war between Spain's politicians and soldiers...
...what Spaniards learn. He controls the police and so determines who shall live free or in prison. He heads the Ministry of Government (Interior), which now includes the Ministry of Communications, and so controls the post office, telephone, telegraph and cable systems. He heads the Falange Española Tradicionalista and so bosses Spain's sole political party, its 2,000,000 members, 800,000 associated female Falangistas and 600,000 Falange youths...
Behind flights, arrests, rumors, was the fight of the Falange and the Army, a conflict older than the peace. During the war, General Franco merged 3,000,000 Falangists-extreme Fascists-and 800,000 Carlists-conservative monarchists-into the Falange Espanola Tradicionalista de los Jons, a top-heavy Fascist party modeled on those of Italy and Germany. Reorganized, cleaned out, it had 1,700,000 rank & file members and 20,000 "militant members" made up of Generalissimo Franco's general staff, commissioned and non-commissioned officers in his Army, hand-picked pro-Franco members of the Falange...