For years Dictator Francisco Franco's most powerful weapon in preventing revolt was the memory of the 1936-39 civil war in which a million Spaniards were killedtwice as many as in the American Civil War. Spaniards might be plagued by inflation, corruption, heavy-handed authority and inefficiency; they were willing to accept almost anything rather than more bloodshed.
A new generation, for whom the horrors of the civil war are only stories, has begun to fight bitterly against the dictator in student riots and strikes. So concerned was Franco that during the past fortnight his ubiquitous secret police arrested more than a...
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