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Date Posted: 02:54:29 10/21/02 Mon In reply to: Forum Admin 's message, "General Franco" on 11:33:26 04/05/02 Fri what a sick, twisted view of history this is, ignoring the severe repression enacted by franco to repress all who disagreed with him. how pathetically jingoistic to celebrate the rallying cries of narrow fundamentalism as you do. freedom to express opinion is something denied catholics and non-catholics the world over. no catholic can say that a nation where soldiers stood at the back of lecture halls supervising the teaching of history and literature is something to be celebrated. >Calvo Sotelo was murdered in Madrid, during July, 1936 >by uniformed forces of the State. When chaos and >anarchy broke out all over the country, Catholic Spain >turned its eyes to the Canary Islands. If there was to >be a movement, nobody doubted who would direct it. > >An aeroplane left for the Canary Islands on 17 July >bringing Spain's call to Franco. When be became >convinced that there was no possible alternative he >accepted, flew to Morocco, called the army into >action, and it responded to a man. > >Soon all the best elements in the national life of >Spain were flocking to the Nationalist cause with >shouts of "Long live Christ the King," "Viva Espana," >"Viva Franco", and at the end of two months General >Franco was invested as head of the new Spanish State. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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| Re: General Franco | Sean | 06:17:12 11/13/02 Wed |