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José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, the First Duke of Primo de Rivera, the Third Marquis of Estella, GdE was born on this day in 1903. His father was the dictator of Spain, appointed by King Alfonso XIII, from 1923 until 1930. Primo de Rivera was originally a lawyer, but in October 1933 he founded the fascist Spanish Falange movement. (more…)
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Arthur F. Loveday
Spain 1923-1948: Civil War + World War
Allentown, Penn.: Antelope Hill Publishing, 2022
(originally published in the United Kingdom in 1948)
Of all the nations that make up Western Civilization, Spain was the first that faced and overcame the challenges that eventually troubled all the others. In the 1400s, Spain threw off the Jewish yoke and freed its government and society. A century later, they also expelled the Muslim settler-colonists. Then, in the 1930s, the Spanish defeated a Soviet-led effort to carry out a Communist revolution in their country. (more…)
Salvador Dalí meeting with Francisco Franco in 1972.
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José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, the First Duke of Primo de Rivera, the Third Marquis of Estella, GdE was born on this day in 1903. His father was the dictator of Spain, appointed by King Alfonso XIII, from 1923 until 1930. Primo de Rivera was originally a lawyer, but in October 1933 he founded the fascist Spanish Falange movement. The Falange was monarchist, Catholic, anti-democratic, anti-capitalist, anti-Communist, and national syndicalist in orientation (more…)
509 words
José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, the First Duke of Primo de Rivera, the Third Marquis of Estella, GdE was born on this day in 1903. His father was the dictator of Spain, appointed by King Alfonso XIII, from 1923 until 1930. Primo de Rivera was originally a lawyer, but in October 1933 he founded the fascist Spanish Falange movement. The Falange was monarchist, Catholic, anti-democratic, anti-capitalist, anti-Communist, and national syndicalist in orientation (more…)