Mr. Fraga, though, is not one to apologize for his Francoist past. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
He made our cities commercial franchises for his twisted, Francoist version of the Olympic ideal. From Wordnik.com. [Burying Juan Antonio Samaranch] Reference
Up until the dictator's death in 1975, Samaranch proclaimed himself "one hundred per cent Francoist.". From Wordnik.com. [Burying Juan Antonio Samaranch] Reference
"It is outlandish," said Manuel Fraga, a former Francoist minister who is the party's founding president. From Wordnik.com. [Charismatic judge who pursued Spain's fascist assassins finds himself on trial] Reference
Of course, the IOC itself was run by a Francoist for twenty years, and even prior to that the long-time head of the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [The Torch Is Past] Reference
This would be the first trial in Spain — where a number of prominent Nazis lived during the Francoist era — of a former figure of the Nazi regime. From Wordnik.com. [Spain Seeks to Try Demjanjuk] Reference
Essentially meaningless, the words captured the cult of soil, blood and savagery that coursed through European Fascism, in its Francoist and other forms. From Wordnik.com. [News Not Fit to Print: US Coup Planned for Venezuela?] Reference
The coup was to separate him forever from his brother Manuel who was trapped in the Nationalist (Francoist) zone, and from Valderrama who was in Portugal. From Wordnik.com. [antonio machado | la palabra en el tiempo « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
The conservative Popular Party, founded by Manuel Fraga Iribarne, a former Francoist government minister, conjured the bogeyman of a divided Spain to stir up the base. From Wordnik.com. [The Longest Shadow] Reference
Francoist traitors he writes, in Homage to Catalonia, "It was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies — unless one counts journalists.". From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of George Orwell (reviews)] Reference
Ofelia, a young girl who loves fairy tales, travels with her pregnant and ailing mother in Spain after the Civil War, journeying to live with her stepfather, Captain Vidal, a Francoist general. From Wordnik.com. [Different Drums] Reference
Local referenda on expanded autonomy for Spain's regions promoted by the government had the highest abstention rates in post-Francoist Spain: 64% in Andalusia and 51% in Catalonia didn't bother to vote. From Wordnik.com. [Spanish Disappointment] Reference
Georges Kopp, who was a close friend of Orwell and helped to save his life when he was shot in the throat by a Francoist sniper in 1937, worked for both the British and the French during the Second World War. From Wordnik.com. [How MI5 kept watch on Orwell] Reference
Celestino, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, lives in cantankerous old age in Paris, complaining to his daughter about their host country, yet not daring to return home for fear of Francoist reprisal. From Wordnik.com. [Monster of Marriage] Reference
They say a decision by the supreme court to try Garzón for allegedly distorting Spanish law as he tried to open an investigation in 2008 into Francoist crimes, proves that Spain is unable to try these crimes itself. From Wordnik.com. [Argentinian judge petitions Spain to try civil war crimes of Franco] Reference
Francoist troops that were coming across from Morocco. From Wordnik.com. [Indymedia Ireland] Reference
The Francoist film Razza, from 1944, which celebrates ideally. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Other streets named after Francoist generals were also changed. From Wordnik.com. [BlueOregon] Reference
Francoist world - these people have never known anything different. From Wordnik.com. [signandsight.com] Reference
Garzon requested formal proof that 35 generals and Francoist ministers are no longer alive. From Wordnik.com. [Taipei Times] Reference
Similarly this NYT article on the former Francoist Manuel Fraga Iribane identifies Fraga as a Francoist. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
He also ordered the interior ministry to provide a list of those in charge of the pro-Francoist Falange movement up until 1951. From Wordnik.com. [Taipei Times] Reference
It started when a journalist, Emilio Silva, penned an article about his grandfather's death at the hands of a Francoist death squad. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary]
Suddenly Spaniards found that thousands, or tens of thousands, of Francoist victims lay in unmarked graves scattered around the countryside. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary]
The opposition conservative People's Party (PP), which grew out of Francoist roots, urged Zapatero to sack an official who had attended Tuesday's rally. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
This story is just one of hundreds of tales of Francoist repression that have emerged as the result of a citizens 'movement to disinter and identify victims. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary]
Garzon's critics claim that all civil war and Francoist repression is covered by a 1977 amnesty law and by rules that mean that most crimes lapse after 20 years. From Wordnik.com. [Taipei Times] Reference
His comment fanned speculation that the government wanted to bury the affair for fear of increasing problems with the conservative opposition, which still has a former Francoist minister in its ranks. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
2008 Opens, and is then forced to close, investigation into Francoist crimes against humanity during and after civil war. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
With its examination of subterfuge and surveillance and its frequent comparisons of earlier times with our own (at one point, Juan Deza suggests a Francoist lineage for the. From Wordnik.com. [bookforum.com] Reference
"rising tide of subjective melody and crypto-Francoist rhythm", editorial, 4 March 1983). From Wordnik.com. [BlogCymru.com] Reference
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