"It is obious that the glorious day of July, 18, 1936 [Franco's coup d'état] was one of the nicest political and social movements that the world remembers. Historians shall admit that the most and best part of the country was the one who raised against the government, illegal and corrupt, who was preparing the darkest red revolution from the power."
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1949, reported in Hernández, María Jesús. El verbo de don Manuel Elmundo.es.
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Manuel Fraga Iribarne
(, – , ) was a politician and Spanish diplomat during , the transition and later democracy years.
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