Philby found that the award proved helpful in obtaining access to fascist circles: " Before then ," he later wrote, " there had been a lot of criticism of British journalists from Franco officers who seemed to think that the British in general must be a lot of Communists because so many were fighting with the International Brigades.

The Liberal government also provoked criticism when it forced Franco, by then a national hero, to retire from the army.

Frequently a critic of US and Soviet foreign policy, he resorted to fierce and often polarizing criticism in pinpointing his resistance towards imperialist ambitions and authoritarian regimes, including those of Francisco Franco of Spain, Gustáv Husák of Czechoslovakia, and B J Vorster and P W Botha of South Africa.

She alienated many U. S. Catholics ( including some clerical leaders ) with her condemnation of Falangist leader Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War ; and, possibly in response to her criticism of Cardinal Francis Spellman, she came under pressure by the Archdiocese of New York in 1951 to change the name of her newspaper, " ostensibly because the word Catholic implies an official church connection when such was not the case.

* strong criticism of the Pinochet Regime in Chile ;

After Spain ’ s bloody and decisive defeat in the Spanish-American War, which resulted in thousands of dead Spaniards and the loss of all of Spain ’ s remaining colonies, these writers were prompted to voice their criticism.

To fend off suspicion and criticism, he translated sections of it into Spanish, submitted it to some fellow Franciscans for their review, and sent it to the King of Spain with some Friars returning home.

Spain in particular has encountered widespread criticism given the overwhelming number of small to medium businesses ( including TEFL schools ) which routinely dodge the teachers ' social security contributions as a means of maximising profits.

* January 30-Facing worldwide criticism and against the wishes of the majorities of their own electorates, leaders of Britain, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, Denmark, and the Czech Republic release a statement, the letter of the eight, demonstrating support for the United States ' plans for an invasion of Iraq.

He wrote film criticism and reviews for the Spanish film journal Nuestro Cine, and made a series of short films before making his first feature film, The Spirit of the Beehive ( 1973 ), a critical portrait of the rural Spain of the 1940s.

The game against Spain in the quarter-finals raised questions against the performance of the referee Louis Baert in the match, a draw ; and in the replay, Swiss referee Rene Mercet did not escape criticism and was banned upon his arrival home by the Swiss FA.

* Generic criticism – a method that assumes certain situations call for similar needs and expectations within the audience, therefore calling for certain types of rhetoric.

The Guiana Island Development Project deal, calling for a 1000-room hotel, an 18-hole golf course and a world-class casino, sparked widespread criticism by environmentalists, minority members in parliament, and the press.

The relationship between various Bahraini communities and Iran is not as straight forward as it might at first seem ; while Shia Bahrainis share a degree of religious affinity with Iran, they tend to be acutely conscious of their Arab identity and hence particularly sensitive to suggestions of dual loyalty ( as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ’ s found in 2006 when he claim that Shia Arabs in the Persian Gulf were an “ Iranian fifth column ”; his views created a storm of criticism in Bahrain, with the deputy speaker of parliament calling on him to apologise ).

He later provoked criticism from the Bush administration for supporting British GCHQ translator Katharine Gun and calling on others to leak any papers that reveal government deception about the invasion.

While calling the views expressed in the Fragments mistaken in some respects and one-sided, Schweitzer describes the essay on “ The Aims of Jesus and His Disciples ” as not only “ one of the greatest events in the history of criticism ” but also “ a masterpiece of general literature ”.

Missouri Governor Matt Blunt quickly released criticism of the policy change calling it " unnecessary and bad ;" also saying the decision " bows to the forces of political correctness ".

In May 2011, when Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan requested Chubu Electric Power Company to shut down several of its Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plants due to safety concerns, the Yomiuri responded with criticism, calling the move " abrupt " and a difficult situation for Chubu Electric's shareholders.

However, his endorsement of Bruce Perry's biography in an article calling for black gay role models has led to criticism due to Perry's claim that Malcolm X had male lovers in his youth.

Cowen ’ s government received heavy criticism for overreaction in its handling of the incident, with Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny calling the government ’ s response as " an unmitigated disaster ".

Anderson also came in for criticism for calling on the three combat commands of U. S. 1st Armored Division for independent tasking ( over the vehement objections of its commander, Orlando Ward ) thus diluting the division's potential effectiveness.

The VNS received intense criticism for its ' flip-flop ' calling of the state of Florida in that election.

The Voter News Service also received specific criticism for calling the state of Florida for Al Gore before the polls closed in the Florida panhandle, which was located in the Central Time Zone and heavily Republican.

The criticism of his novel, extending even into criticism of his person, never truly left Lewis, and an attack on his character was published by the Courier posthumously, calling itself a “ just estimate of his character .” As recorded by MacDonald: “ He had devoted the first fruits of his mind to the propagation of evil, and the whole long harvest was burnt up ...

In May 2001 the group issued an open letter raising criticism against Isayas Afeworki's actions calling them " illegal and unconstitutional.

Bhutto's was a strong advocate of developing ties with China, this policy came under severe criticism from the United States, President Johnson wrote a letter to President Khan calling on him to fire Mr Bhutto and to only maintain ties with the " free world ".

Turk hugs him, calling him " Lando ," even though he prefers to be called Billy D. He is also well known for his appearance in advertisements for Colt 45 ( a brand of malt liquor ) in the 1980s and early 1990s, for which he received much criticism.

A large amount of criticism followed soon after, calling into question the paper's editorial policy.

Well-known Swedish journalists have echoed criticism regarding cover-ups, with Janne Josefsson calling it " one of the worst betrayals we journalists have made ourselves guilty of "(" ett av de värsta sveken vi journalister gjort oss skyldiga till ").

A persistent criticism leveled against those who protested the United States's involvement in the Vietnam War is that protesters spat upon and otherwise derided returning soldiers, calling them " baby-killers ", etc.

Stung by criticism that the moon-base project has no real justification — 37 years ago, President Richard Nixon canceled the final planned Apollo moon missions because the program was accomplishing little at great expense ; as early as 1964, the communitarian theorist Amitai Etzioni was calling lunar obsession a “ moondoggle ”— NASA is selling the new plan as a second moon race, this time against Beijing.

He was afterwards involved in calling for peace during the Balkan Wars ; notably, Rakovsky expressed criticism of Romania's invasion of Bulgaria during the Second Balkan War, and called on Romanian authorities not to annex Southern Dobruja.

Despite the plot being a source of significant criticism, the majority of academics and musicians agree in calling it a magnum opus, particularly lauding its craftmanship.

In June 2004, MoveOn organized a response to criticism of Michael Moore's controversial film, Fahrenheit 9 / 11, calling on its members to send supportive emails to movie theatres.

Greater political and social freedoms, instituted by the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, created an atmosphere of open criticism of the communist regime.

But the Foreign Office diplomats loyally served the Nazi regime and only rarely gave Hitler grounds for criticism.

Meanwhile, in 1993 and 1994 continued repression by the Karimov regime brought strong criticism from international human rights organizations.

In private notes written in 1939, Heidegger took a strongly critical view of Hitler's ideology, however in public lectures he seems to have continued to make ambiguous comments which, if they expressed criticism of the regime, did so only in the context of praising its ideals.

For example, conservative legal scholar, judge, and failed Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork is well known for his outspoken criticism of the antitrust regime.

* criticism of European Communist regimes, including labeling the Husák regime as " cattle of dictatorship " ( Swedish: " Diktaturens kreatur ") in 1975 ;

Its early opposition and criticism of the Nazi regime saw the paper become the first North American paper to be banned in Germany by its government.

After the military coup of 1973, some Chilean cartoonists were censored by the military regime, yet unlike other publications ( such as the Argentinian Mafalda ), which combined criticism of society with humor, Condorito, which lacked the former, continued to be published.

In Australia, there was also widespread public outrage, and criticism of Canberra's close relationship with the Suharto regime and recognition of Jakarta's sovereignty over East Timor.

The speech follows criticism that SIS had been too close to the Libyan regime and was involved in the extraordinary rendition of anti-Gaddafi activists.

Her novels were bestsellers and her literary criticism was highly influential, when she was allowed to live in Paris she greatly encouraged any political dissident from Louis's regime.

He is known for his outspoken criticism of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, of the secular governments that followed, and of the Taliban regime.

This criticism for Louis XIV's regime was spreading all over Europe.

Others have theorized that Tresca was eliminated by the NKVD as retribution for criticism of the Stalin regime of the Soviet Union.

The Portuguese ruling regime of Estado Novo faced criticism from the international community and was becoming increasingly isolated.

At the 1978 MPR General Session, PPP member Chalid Mawardi launched a scathing criticism of Suharto's regime.

He also never expressed criticism or uneasiness about the oppressive nature of the Soviet regime, the brutal suppression of political dissent, the forced collectivization or any other crimes perpetrated by the Soviet system.

He says that he disapproves of criticism of President Ilham Aliyev's regime, and has stated that, in particular, he disapproves of the democratic opposition movement within Azerbaijan.

Gul Agha Sherzai was Governor of the province before and after the Taliban regime, until early 2004, when mounting criticism of his efforts led President Hamid Karzai to remove him from the post.

He was instrumental in the rise to power of the government of the Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase, but his intense criticism of the government's policy of showing leniency towards persons implicated in the coup later strained his relations with the regime, and on 5 December 2006, he overthrew the Qarase government and announced that he had " reluctantly " assumed the powers of the presidency.

Die Linke opposes him due to his strong criticism of the former East German communist regime.

Orwell went on to suggest that because both the UK and the Soviet Union were members of the Allied powers at the time, this self-censorship was preventing valid criticism of the Communist regime.

He was extremely vocal and direct in his criticism of Slobodan Milošević and his regime, so much so that he was forced into hiding during the NATO airstrikes during Spring 1999, fearing brutal reprisal at a time when the regime often engaged in the practice of eliminating political opponents under the shield of NATO bombs.