Neo-barroque poetry and paens to Franco's Spain satisfied the censors but has enjoyed no subsequent critical shelf-life.

This group sees mainland China as being similar to Franco's Spain in the 1960s, and South Korea during the 1970s when South Korea was run by corrupt, authoritarian regimes.

Most of the following events happened under Franco's regime, which skillfully played each group against the others.

After a personnel change ( due to some of the original members growing up ), they experienced some backlash in the country for recording their song " El Alacrán " (" The Scorpion "), an innocent pop tune that made a coincidental reference to a clandestine group that was one of Francisco Franco's staunchest opponents.

Trueta formed part of a group of Catalans exiled in the United Kingdom who denounced the situation of Catalonia under Franco's regime.

By the time of Franco's death in the mid-1970s this group numbered about 50 people.

* The People's Alliance ( Spain ), conservative political party in Spain, formed by a group of Franco's partisans after his death

The Cesana family hid in the Apennine Mountains, next to Modena. Franco's family had to move from hut to hut in the mountains in order to evade the German soldiers. Franco, who was twelve at the time, joined one of the Justice and Liberty partisan group with his brother Lelio.

The next 20 years under Franco's dictatorship were difficult for Alicante, as they were for the entire country.

Later German Bf-109s delivered to Franco's Spanish Nationalist air forces secured air superiority for the Nationalists, one they would never relinquish.

They then travelled on to Algeciras, where they stayed some days to reconnoiter the approaches to Gibraltar, and returned to Germany with the conclusion that Franco's regime was reluctant to enter the war.

They were once fired upon by mistake by Franco's troops, after which they returned to Ireland.

As with all his works, they were banned in Spain until after Franco's death.

When Bilbao, the most populated town in the Basque Country, was taken by Franco's troops the Basque nationalists decided to keep untouched all the heavy industries of Bilbao, dedicated to iron and machinery, thinking that they had the responsibility of securing the prosperity of their people in the future.

Hoare's memoir however is not completely frank about his deployment of an array of bluff, leaks, bribery and subterfuge to disrupt unfriendly elements in Franco's regime, and the operations of the German Embassy ; but they were remembered fondly by his team.

In regard to Carrero's death, the former ETA member now turned anti-nationalist writer Jon Juaristi contends that ETA's goal with this killing was not democratization but a spiral of violence to fully destabilize Spain, heighten Franco's repression against Basque nationalism and put the average Basque citizen in the situation where they would have had to accept the lesser evil in the form of ETA's reaction against Franco's unleashed repression.

Some hymns in the Nahuatl language by a composer of the same name ( Hernando don Franco ) are now presumed to be the work of a native composer who took Franco's name, as was the custom, on his conversion to Christianity and baptism ( if so, they may be the earliest extant notated music in the European tradition by a Native American composer ).

Despite the victim of the alleged attack denying that it was Franco, two magazines then contacted Franco's lawyer to alert them that they might run stories suggesting his involvement, but were unable to as at least part of their stories were fabricated.

Messori, who is not a member of Opus Dei, also states that there were only 8 members of Opus Dei ( 5 of whom served for only one term or but a few months ) of the 116 ministers under Franco's regime, and they started serving only after 1956, a few years after the Allies recognized it.

Sociologically at the beginning of Franco's regime, they hailed him as a savior who liberated them from the communism and anarchism of the Second Spanish Republic ; this attitude evolve through time and in the end, like most Catholics, they were 50-50 for Franco.

During Francisco Franco's dictatorship they were appointed rather than elected.

However, on the eve of the opening ceremony, General Franco's military pronunciamento, declared from Spanish Morocco, started the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 1939 ).

The conflict that started between the Second Spanish Republic and Francisco Franco's National Sindicalists soon involved Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on the Spanish Nationalist side and the Soviet Union help on the Spanish Republic's side.

This " White legend " Hispanophile tradition of historiography has been associated with nationalistic politics of Spain and conservative historiography in Latin America, and with Francisco Franco's dictatorial regime.

After he allegedly invented table football ( Lucien Rosengart claims to have done so as well ) he fled Francisco Franco's Spain to Latin America.

The line was perceived as a slap at NBC Nightly News main anchor John Chancellor, who due to his background as a foreign correspondent, felt the network should weigh its news more heavily toward world events, and had kept Franco's deathwatch at the top of the headlines.

Additionally, the timing of Franco's announcement of the decision to create the monument suggests one side is being commemorated more than the other: on 1 April 1940, the day of the victory parade to celebrate the first anniversary of his triumph over the Republic, Franco announced his personal decision to raise a splendid monument to those who had fallen in his cause.

For more than a decade after Franco's victory, the economy improved little.

Ironically, the regime of António de Oliveira Salazar was by then far more to Campbell's tastes than Franco's Spain, which was compromised in his mind by an intimate collaboration with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

Anarchism has historically gained more support and influence in Spain than anywhere else, especially before Francisco Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 – 1939.

Because the local Muslim troops had been among Franco's earliest supporters, the protectorate enjoyed more political freedom than Franco-era Spain proper after Franco's victory, with competing political parties and a Moroccan nationalist press, criticizing the Spanish government.

During the following years, and mainly due to Franco's regime oppression against the Catalan people and culture, the movement gained more sympathizers.

Franco's style is related to that of other Spanish composers of the period, though more conservative, treating dissonance carefully, avoiding chromaticism and virtuosity ; indeed tending towards austerity.

This was a common practice until 1975, when Franco's regime gave way to the current constitutional democracy, but in the early 70s gay prisoners were overlooked by political activism in favour of more " traditional " political dissenters.

After moving around frequently in the later 1920s and early 1930s, including a period in Paris, he returned to Spain and linked himself to Franco's Falange party.

* Thomas Patten from Dooega died fighting Francisco Franco's fascist forces during the Siege of Madrid in December 1936.

Alicante was the last city loyal to the Republican government to be occupied by dictator Franco's troops on 1 April 1939, and its harbour saw the last Republican government officials fleeing the country.

The resistance of Barcelona to Franco's coup d ' état was to have lasting effects after the defeat of the Republican government.

Spanish Basques also sought refuge in Bayonne in the 20th century during Francisco Franco's repression, with Petit Bayonne still a centre of Basque nationalism.

A Savoia-Marchetti SM. 81 | plane, supported by Fiat CR. 32 | smaller fighter planes, of Francisco Franco's Nationalists bombs Madrid during the Spanish Civil War ( 1936-1939 )

The final push of this effort was the defeat of Franco's Peruvian-backed forces at the Battle of Guayaquil, which led to the overturning of the Treaty of Mapasingue.

Francisco Franco's quasi-fascist Falangist single-party state in Spain was officially neutral in World War II and survived the collapse of the Axis Powers.

Franco's rise to power had been directly assisted by the militaries of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during the Spanish Civil War, and had sent volunteers to fight on the side of Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World War II.

After World War II and a period of international isolation, Franco's regime normalized relations with Western powers in the Cold War, until Franco's death in 1975 and the transformation of Spain into a liberal democracy.

At the end of the year, concerned by Francisco Franco's Falangist uprising, ( supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ), Orwell decided to go to Spain to take part in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side.

* 1936 – 1939 – After the United Kingdom recognised the Franco's regime in 1938, Gibraltar had two Spanish Consulates, a Republican one and a Nationalistic one.

On April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, the town was razed to the ground by German aircraft belonging to the Condor Legion, sent by Hitler to support Franco's troops.

Franco's move was intended to seize power immediately, but successful resistance by Republicans in places such as Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, the Basque country and elsewhere meant that Spain faced a prolonged civil war.

During Franco's rule, Spain was officially neutral in World War II and remained largely economically and culturally isolated from the outside world.

The latter years of Franco's rule saw some economic and political liberalization, the Spanish Miracle, including the birth of a tourism industry.

In the last few months before Franco's death, the Spanish state went into a paralysis.

The transition is usually said to have begun with Franco's death on 20 November 1975, while its completion is marked by the electoral victory of the socialist PSOE on 28 October 1982.

After the invasion of Ethiopia, Italy intervened to support Francisco Franco's nationalists in the Spanish Civil War.

" So as to assist in Franco's assassination, Philby was instructed to report on vulnerable points in Franco's security and recommend ways to gain access to him and his staff.

On the strength of his knowledge and experience of Franco's Spain, he was put in charge of the subsection which dealt with Spain and Portugal.