By Giles Tremlett
p. 2) anglosajon, an Anglo-Saxon
p. 10) El pacto del olvido, the pact of forgetting
p. 10) La Transcicion, a matter of "forgetting by everyone for everyone"
p. 12) Las Dos Espanas, the Two Spains
p. 15) A country that dares not speak its own name
p. 29) The Civil War was "the culmination of a hundred years of class war"
p. 30) The Generalisimo saved Spain froma workers' revolution
p. 31) For Franco the was a cruzada, a fundamentalist Roman Catholic crusade against a conspiracy of Marxists (and their "Jewish spirit"), freemasons and separatists.
p. 32) Franco: "I will save Spain from Marxism at any price."
p. 48) Spaniards have done all they can to wipe out Franco's imprint
p. 53) "Franco did not rule by repression alone: he enjoyed considerable popular support
p. 55) Franco's political philiosphy, "National Catholicism," was, as the name implies, mainly about patriotism and God.
p. 56) retranca: a sort of deliberate ambivalence or avoidance of committing themselves
p. 88) pronunciamientos: the uprisings and takeovers by generals
p. 90) Monarchy not well rooted
p. 102) "If they erected a black cross on the beach for every mortal sin committed there, the beach would have more crosses than grains of sand!"
p. 144) It was probably Franco who used Real Madrid, rather than the other way around.
p. 188) Moralistas, were moral fascists, out to control the private lives of others
p. 190) Franco's death set Spain on a delayed sexual revolution that was grasped with fervour
p. 193) Franco's new Civil Code ordered that: "A man must protect his wife, and she must obey her husband."
p. 197) The Civil Guard, that symbol of Francoist repression
p. 257) Nationalism in the Basque Country, as in Catalonia, is as much an emotion -- or an identity -- as a set of political arguments. Its voters are people who put their Basque-ness before any other political desire.
p. 261) "Either you can be Basque, or you can have sex."
p. 262) Tony Parker's My The Lord in His Mercy be Kind to Belfast
p. 291) Las Ramblas caters -- in one way or another -- for the most elemental desires of life
p. 298) Franco wanted national unity "with a single language, Castillian, and a single personality, that of Spain."
p. 305) Spain was the only country where anarchism truly took off.
p. 327) pulpo a la gallego: boiling water, olive oil and paprika
p. 329) Franco was "the hero turned father, who stands vigil, night and day, over the peace of his people."
p. 364) Gerald Brenan's The Face of Spain
p. 367) Paul Preston's Franco
Hugh Thomas' The Spanish Civil War
Ian Gibson's Shameful Life Of Salvador Dali
