Word: generalissimo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quarter of a century since the war Spain's ruler has been the stocky, mustached Francisco Franco Bahamonde, Caudillo, Jefe del Estado, Prime Minister, Generalissimo of the Armed Forces, Regent of the Kingdom, and President of the Falange. Franco inaugurated a year of memorial celebrations--"Twenty-Five Years of Peace"--earlier this month with a service at the Holy Cross Basilica, a multi-million dollar monument to the war dead. The service will be followed by a year-long continuum of fairs, parades, dances, and patriotic exhibitions. "As tragic as were the dead," commented the government's Director-General...
Spanish unity today is entirely Franco's creation, for he rules the nation alone. The national assembly, the Cortes, is a consultative body at best, meeting infrequently with little public debate. Much legislation, in fact, never goes before it. The Generalissimo can make law by publishing any order in the government gazette, the Boletin Oficial del Estado. The cabinet plays a more important role in the business of state but it, too, is subject to Franco's whim. At its bi-weekly meetings Franco presides benevolently. "The Caudillo patiently listens," writes a junior minister, "while government members argue at length...
...question of Franco's succession remains cloudy if much discussed. At a rally several weeks ago, the Generalissimo announced without fanfare that he would continue to rule "as long as the Lord gives me strength. Many of the powers which are now mine are, because of their very nature, non-transferable." But twenty-five years after his victory the Caudillo is a weathered seventy-one. A hunting accident suffered several years ago brought the succession question to the front of everybody's mind. Since a 1947 plebescite--the only one during his reign--Franco has had the right to name...
China was saved for the last. China was very big, very old, very abused, said De Gaulle. He spoke warmly of Generalissimo...
...Chinese may be a long way from building an atom bomb, but their antiaircraft techniques appear effective enough. Last year they shot down a Nationalist U-2 reconnaissance plane, one of a pair sold to Formosa by the U.S. in 1960. Last week, on the day after Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's 76th birthday, Peking announced that it had shot down the other U-2 over the mainland...