Felipe's Decisive Victory

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From the Magazine | World
Felipe's Decisive Victory
By THOMAS A. SANCTON

Posted Monday, Nov. 8, 1982

Socialists gain power after four decades

The first sign came from the northern provincial capital of Huesca, a traditionally conservative area, where the early returns showed the Socialists well ahead. Next came coastal Pontevedra, a longtime franquista stronghold in Galicia, which the Socialists came surprisingly close to carrying. Then the southern province of Alrneria, another conservative bastion, fell to the Socialists. Finally the rose-colored tide rolled across the plains of Old Castile.

By 11:55 p.m. last Friday, four hours after the polls closed, the outcome was already clear: a decisive victory for the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (P.S.O.E.), which will have an absolute majority of 201 seats in Spain's 350-member Cortes, up from 120 seats in 1979. The new conservative opposition party, Alianza Popular, finished a strong second with 106 seats. The Communists won only five seats, down from 20 in the outgoing parliament. In effect, the vote meant the total collapse of the political center, which has governed the country since the return of democracy in 1976 following the death of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Thus, 43 years after their defeat in Spain's bloody Civil War, the Socialists were coming to power as a legitimate, popularly elected governing party for the first time in Spanish history.

"This election has entrusted the government of Spain to the Socialists for the next four years,"
said jubilant Party Leader Felipe Gonzalez Marquez in an early morning victory statement. Appealing to workers, employers, the bureaucracy and even "the military and forces of public order,"
the handsome, boyish-looking Gonzalez (who, at 40, becomes the youngest head of government in Western Europe) asked for the cooperation of "all sectors of society."
The Socialist leader, who will take over as Prime Minister in December, said that the first domestic priority would be "overcoming the economic crisis."
As for foreign policy, he said, "we are going to work for Spain, for peace between nations, for detente and dialogue, and for the populations who suffer from violated human rights."

That speech came as a climax to a late night vigil at Socialist election headquarters in Madrid's Palace Hotel. A crowd of some 4,000 applauded as results were flashed on a giant 30-ft. color-television screen outside the hotel. Party workers sent up occasional chants of "Felipe, Presidentel Felipe, Presidente!"
while other supporters converged on the capital's main square, singing, dancing and hugging one another. One grizzled workingman with a red bandanna on his neck embraced a well-wisher with tears in his eyes and announced hoarsely, "España socialista!"
Overall, however, the crowds were relatively subdued, partly because the outcome had been so widely predicted, and partly because González had appealed for the "avoidance of any provocation"
that might upset the stability of Spain's fledgling democracy.

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Bombay riots follow Ghandi's arrest

5 killed;
curfew imposed

Monday August 10, 1942
The Guardian

Gandhi and many other Congress leaders and officials have been arrested, and there has been rioting in Bombay, Poona, and Ahmedabad.

The Government of India on Saturday night, after Congress's decision for mass civil disobedience if its demands were not met, issued a statement saying that it would discharge its task in face of the challenge now thrown down by Congress with clear determination. But it was anxious that action should be preventive of an interruption of the war effort and other dangers rather than punitive.

It could not, it declared, enter into discussions about a demand the acceptance of which would plunge India into confusion and anarchy and paralyse her effort in the common cause of human freedom.

With the arrests, the Government of India declared the All-India Congress Committee, its Working Committee, and the Delhi Provincial Congress Committee unlawful organisations interfering with the administration of the law and constituting a danger to the public peace. Similar action has been, or is being, taken in the provinces.

The arrests of Mr. Gandhi, Mr. Nehru, and Dr. Azad, the three chief leaders of Congress, were followed by riotous outbursts in Bombay.

Official statements by the Government of Bombay stated that the police had been forced to use tear gas on five occasions and to open fire five times. Two of the 19 police injured in the firing in the city had died later, and up to 5 p.m. 34 constables and 11 police officers were suffering from other injuries. A Reuter Bombay telegram put the total killed by bullets at five up to 7 30 p.m. Arrests numbered 149 early last evening.

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Franco's Daughter Sees Her First Ball Game
The Washington Post and Times Herald (1954-1959) - Washington, D.C. 

Date: Jul 12, 1954
Start Page: 21
Section: for and about WOMEN
Document Types: article
Text Word Count: 225

FLASHBULBS POPPED at Griffith Stadium yesterday when Carmen Franco, Marquesa de Villaverde and her husband, Dr. Martinez Bordiu, arrived to see the game between the Nats and the New York Yankees. The Marquesa, dressed in a pale yellow shantung suit, was seeing baseball for the first time.

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Recorte amarillento y muy deteriorado de periódico hispánico, hallado junto con otros bajo la máquina de coser de mi difunta tí­a. No aparece la fecha, pero por las noticias debe de ser entre 1933-1936, ya que no hablan nada de guerra en España ni en Europa. Entre diversas noticias, tenemos:

GOLPEADOS CUANDO PORTABAN LA SVASTICA

Amberes 22. Cuando dos habitantes de esta capital se paseaban por el barrio judí­o ostentando la insignia de la cruz gamada, la multitud los rodeó, arrancándoles dicho emblema y maltratándolos. A consecuencia de los golpes, resultó uno de ellos con heridas de gravedad.


PACTO DE TRABAJO ENTRE LA JUVENTUD OBRERA "NAZI"
Y LOS ESTUDIANTES "NAZIS"

Berlí­n 22. Ha quedado ultimado un pacto de trabajo entre la juventud obrera nacionalsocialista y la Asociación de Estudiantes de Berlí­n y del noroeste de Alemania. El objeto del mismo es ayudar al socialismo alemán contra la reacción.


EL SALUDO DE LOS EXTRANJEROS AL PASO DE LAS BANDERAS "NAZIS"

Berlí­n 22. El segundo jefe del partido nacionalsocialista, Sr. Rudolf Hess, ha publicado una comunicación en la que dice que es deber de cortesí­a de todo extranjero en Alemania, así­ como de todo alemán en el Extranjero, de saludar, quitándose el sombrero, al paso de banderas y emblemas nacionales, y de levantarse cuando se interprete el himno nacional. No se exige, sin embargo, que los extranjeros saluden en Alemania levantando la mano derecha, como lo hacen los nacionalsocialistas, por ser una costumbre [justo aquí­ falta el texto: ¿de su partido?] y no general.


PROHIBICIONES ANTISEMITAS

Berlí­n 22. Según los periódicos, en la población de Grossgrundbach (Franconia) ha sido prohibida a los judí­os la entrada. También, por orden del secretario de Estado, les ha sido prohibido el acceso a los baños de Wansee.

La policí­a secreta ha prohibido hasta el 2 de septiembre próximo la publicación del "Diario de la Asociación Central de Ciudadanos Alemanes de Confesión Israelita", y hasta nueva orden, según el periódico inglés "City Post". Estas medidas son motivadas, según parece, por la necesidad de asegurar el orden público.