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...thus involved covering Spain from the inside, and a man on the outside-the Pretender who may one day be King. The inside job is the work of Jeremy Main and Godfrey Blunden. Main, who was born in Argentina of British parents and speaks fluent Spanish, was once Madrid bureau chief for International News Service. Returning to Madrid, he interviewed Cabinet ministers, economists. Roman Catholic lay leaders and politicians from left to right, and reports. "Mostly I found sources far more willing to talk and even to be quoted than when I worked here six years...
...fourth bomb in a week exploded in a Madrid street last week, testifying to the increasing boldness of anti-Franco plotters. Bright-colored opposition handbills showed up on tables in cafes, on street corners, plastered to walls and telephone poles in side streets of a dozen cities. More than a hundred unhappy Spanish politicians boldly gathered 900 miles away in West Germany to talk earnestly of the freedom that Franco fears. Workers gathered in town squares to whisper in awe and pride of the only successful strike in the history of Franco Spain, won by the stubborn Asturias coal miners...
What scared Franco was two bombings that shattered a Madrid bank front last week and made a mighty bang outside an administration building of the Roman Catholic Church. Police moved in on suspected members of an anti-Franco underground, arresting dozens. Then, at the Madrid airport, Franco's agents grabbed two prominent Spaniards as they returned from a widely publicized conference of opposition leaders in Munich. Economist Dr. Jesus Prados Arrarte is expected to do a three-month stretch in the isolated Canary Islands; Monarchist Joaquin de Satrustegui will doubtless receive similar punishment. For those still out of jail...
When Painter Julio de Diego was a boy of 15 in Madrid, he already knew that he wanted to be an artist, but his father, a wholesale and retail merchant, objected. Father insisted that Julio and Julio's brother should aim for business success. "He even removed the table from my bedroom to discourage me from drawing," recalls De Diego. "One day I found some of my drawings, and he had written all over them, destroying every one: 'You are a Bohemian and this will be the cause of your dying of hunger.' " So Julio stuffed...
Since strikes are illegal, Dictator Franco did not speak of strikes at all when he rose to address 10,000 civil war veterans in a park outside Madrid; he referred to "labor conflicts in the north," which, he said, were the result of "the clerical errors of hot-headed priests...