Word: generalissimo
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Holding himself stiffly in his sashed and braided blue uniform, Generalissimo Francisco Franco stepped out onto the balcony of the Royal Palace overlooking Madrid's Plaza de Oriente. Instantly, the human sea of 150,000 faithful down below him thrust right arms forward in salute. Then the crowd launched into Face to the Sun, the anthem of the right-wing Falangist shopkeepers and tradesmen who sided with Franco when he began his bloody struggle for power 39 years ago and have been unswerving in their support of him ever since. Franco spoke only three minutes in his thin, barely...
Despite the severity of the repression, the Franco regime does not see the current increase in political opposition as a serious threat to its stability, at least not while the Generalissimo is alive. More worrisome in the short run are economic problems, which include a 16% annual inflation rate and a 9% drop in industrial production in the first four months of this year. The two issues, however, are ultimately linked, and the executions may cost Spain more than moral opprobrium. While Franco's regime was being denounced in Western Europe last week, Spanish diplomats in Washington were negotiating...
...shek and his coterie of corrupt politicians and generals who "lost" China. But in the '50s, distinctions were not so easy to draw. Most Americans admired Chiang as a hero-and in many respects he was. Convinced of Nationalist China's democratic policies, the public saw the Generalissimo as a leader in the Western tradition and was moved by memories of his fight against Imperial Japan. The foreign left seemed a vast, threatening monolith. Given this new climate of fear, the attack on the Foreign Service men seemed to many repugnant in practice but justified in intent. Senator...
Flying in after the NATO summit in Brussels and a brief stopover in Madrid to visit Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Ford was lodged in Schloss Klessheim, an 18th century baroque chateau with a pink façade. Sadat, eager to size up Ford but unwilling to visit Washington until there is more progress toward peace with Israel, stayed at the elegant, 525-year-old Schloss Fuschl, a hunting lodge...
...further dramatize U.S. concern about Europe's shaky southern tier, Ford will spend Saturday in Madrid discussing U.S.-European relations with Generalissimo Francisco Franco and Premier Carlos Arias Navarro. From Spain, Ford will fly to Salzburg to talk with Sadat in hopes of finding a new approach to negotiating peace in the Middle East. Sadat has ruled out a resumption of Secretary of State Kissinger's step-by-step diplomacy. As a result, said a White House aide, "we have to find an alternative. The most dangerous alternative is to do nothing-and that...