Francisco Franco (1892 – 1975)
Commonly known as Francisco Franco, was a military generalissimo, leader of Spain from October 1936 (whole country from April 1, 1939 on), and de-facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in 1975.
General Franco made it clear that Spain could enter the war only when England was about ready to collapse.
All is well, thank God... but victory will not be complete, definitive or stable, as long as Masonry is in our Spain. And how will it disappear? What to do? Ask Mussolini.
The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: Masonry and Communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land.
One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no Communism.
We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams.
Franco's own ideology was deeply conservative but it was subordinated to the perputation of his own power. He maintained control
The crucial difference was between the regimes of the old Right, who wanted to turn the clock back to a pre-democratic elitist era, and the new Right who seized and sustained power through the instruments of mass politics. The former included General Franco and the Greek dictator Metaxas, men who feared mass politics and allied themselves with bastions of the established order such as the monarchy and the Church...the new radical Right, in contrast, rose to power in Italy and Germany through elections and the parliamentary process.
The defence of internal peace and order constitutes the sacred mission of a nation's armed forces and that is what we have carried out.
The Spanish Republic did not find itself free of obligations. For the most part the leaders were Freemasons. Before their duty to their country came their obligations to the Grand Orient. In my opinion, Freemasonry, with all its international influence, is the organization principally responsible for the political ruin of Spain, as well as the murder of Calvo Sotelo, who was executed in accordance with orders from the Grand Secretary of Freemasonry in Geneva.
I most sincerely wish to go on record as being unalterably opposed to Franco and fascism, to all violations of the legal government and outrages against the people of Republican Spain.
Let us be under no illusion. The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force behind so many anti-Spanish revolutionary agreements, will not be got rid of in a day.
Evelyn Waugh, 1937. Quoted in Jeffrey M. Heath, The Picturesque Prison: Evelyn Waugh and His Writing, (1983), p.49.
There is no question for any decent, kindly man or woman, let alone a poet or writer, who must be more sensitive.
Francisco Franco, the former fascist dictator of Spain, gave the Nazis a list of every Jew in his country in order to facilitate efforts to locate, deport and destroy them, according to a document found recently in a Spanish archive and reported on Sunday by the Spanish daily El Pais.The paper said that in 1941, Spain prepared a list of all 6,000 Jews in its territory and gave it to the architect of the Nazis' Final Solution, Heinrich Himmler...
Just like any honest man, I am against Franco and Fascism in Spain.
Giles Tremlett, "The generalísimo remains on his pedestal". The Guardian, 27 November 2004.
George Orwell, "Looking Back on the Spanish War", 1943.
We strive to form a single national front against the Judeo-Masonic lodges, against Moscow and the Marxist societies.
Naomi Mitchison, 1937. Quoted in Valentine Cunningham, Spanish front: writers on the civil war, 1986 (p 227).
We have torn up Marxist materialism and we have disorientated Masonry. We have thwarted the Satanic machinations of the clandestine Masonic superstate. Despite its control of the world’s press and numerous international politicians. Spain’s struggle is a Crusade; as soldiers of God we carry with us the evangelism of the world!