Spain: A Mood of Unease

I beg you to pay attention to the tensions that manifest themselves in different sectors of our national life.

-Madrid Archbishop

Casimiro Morcillo Gonzalez Let no one, from without or within harbor the least hope of being able to alter in any respect our institutional system.

-Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco,

Spain's Vice President These statements recently electrified Spam, where protest is still a tentative testing affair. The speakers, representing the church and the armed forces earned the force of two powerful arms of the political triad that has supported the rule of Generalissimo Francisco Franco for 32 years (the third being the...

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