"[1] As an ironic counterpoint to this, a picture was displayed behind Chase, showing Franco giving the Roman salute alongside Adolf Hitler. The phrase has remained in use since Franco's death. “Only in the past 10 years have Spaniards really addressed the dictatorship,” says Dr Mathieson. The financial crisis, which hit Spain severely and ended Mr Zapatero’s hopes of a second term, also scuppered any further plans for reform. But Spain was dogged by separatist violence in a long-running campaign by the Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) to promote Basque independence. Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? The most insightful comments on all subjects will be published daily in dedicated articles. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. On February 8, 2007, during Jack Cafferty's segment on CNN's The Situation Room on the day of the death of Anna Nicole Smith, he asked of CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer "Is Anna Nicole Smith still dead, Wolf? Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was born on December 4, 1892, in El Ferrol, a small coastal town on Spain’s northwestern tip. "[3] The joke was sometimes combined with another running gag in which, rather than having a sign language interpreter visually presenting the news to aid the deaf, the show would provide assistance from Garrett Morris, "head of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing", whose "aid" involved cupping his hands around his mouth and shouting the news as Chase read it. Lying in state at the Valle de los Caídos, a huge basilica outside Madrid, Spain’s former fascist dictator has a grave that would befit any fallen king. “I would like to see a grand coalition of left and right,” he says. Today he might be entombed in a similar mausoleum in Berlin. After Franco's death, Chevy Chase, reader of the news on NBC's Saturday Night's comedic news segment Weekend Update, announced Franco's death and read a quotation from Richard Nixon: "General Franco was a loyal friend and ally of the United States. The king won further respect from liberals after he helped to crush a military coup in 1981. “Today in Spain there are basically three schools of thought on Franco’s legacy,” says Dr David Mathieson, the author of Frontline Madrid, a book about the capital’s role in the civil war and the owner of Spanish Sites, which organises tours of the conflict’s battlegrounds. The European Commission expressed "sympathy and friendship for the people of Spain" and condolences to General Franco's widow. Flags all around the country are at half-mast and the general's body is now lying in state at the El Pardo Palace. B. He had been ill for five weeks and died early this morning at La Paz hospital, Madrid. His speech hinted at democratic reform and tolerance for other cultures within Spain. In 2013, it experienced a brief resurgence in a different context, when it began appearing on social media a few days after the death of Spanish filmmaker Jesús Franco. “That government reintroduced divisions – it was their country, they believed. He led an uprising against the Popular Front government. “It is still a burden, nobody wants to talk about it. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. General Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain with an authoritarian hand for 39 years, has died at the age of 82. On slow news days, United States network television newscasters sometimes noted that Franco was still alive, or not yet dead. How did Francisco Franco gain power? Columbu Was Credited as the Director of the Movie Within a Movie in ‘Last Action Hero’ Jack Slater … In 1907, however, the cash-strapped Spanish government temporarily suspended the admission of cadets … Spaniards go to the polls next month in elections that could lead to the first post-dictatorship coalition. “If that happens, maybe at last we can have unity in Spain.”, The Valle de los Caídos, near Madrid: Franco’s tomb is situated near the Valley of the Fallen, where lie the remains of 40,000 victims. They restored rancour and hate in Spain.”. The death of Francisco Franco, Spanish Caudillo, during the first season of NBC's Saturday Night served as the source of the phrase. Mr Zapatero’s leftist government introduced some radical legislation to address the Franco era. [8], The correct spelling in Spanish is in fact 'Generalísimo'. Franco allowed Hitler to use Spain's naval bases during World War II, then declared Spain neutral in 1943 when it looked like the Allies would win. He then entered a naval secondary school with the goal of following his father and grandfather into a sea-based military career. In Madrid alone, there are still more than 150 streets and squares named after his ministers and military officers and, although the country long ago came in from the cold and embraced democracy, his memory and his legacy are never far from the surface. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. But for 30 years before that, it was as though Spain was frozen in time.”. Instead it was proved that the bombings were carried out by Islamists: Spaniards, accusing Mr Aznar of lying to them, voted him out of office. The issue of the brutal civil war, which between 1936 and 1939 left more than half a million people dead and led to Franco’s almost four-decades-long dictatorship, still divides Spaniards. The letter was the last he wrote to his family before he was executed. His regime has also been deeply reactionary, with political parties and non-government trade unions banned, and separatists and communists repressed. The Wall Street Journal used the headline "Generalísimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead – And His Statues Are Next"[5] on its front page March 2, 2009. The Prime Minister, Carlos Arias Navarro, his voice trembling with emotion, announced the death at 1000 local time on radio. In 1978 a new constitution confirmed Spain as parliamentary monarchy. A. “When two Spaniards meet, they will know within 10 or 20 minutes which side their families were on,” said José Martínez Soler, a journalist who was kidnapped and tortured by the Spanish police in the months after Franco’s death for writing that his followers were possibly planning a coup. The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. He was baptised thirteen days later at the military church of San Francisco, with the baptismal name Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo; Francisco for his paternal grandfather, Paulino for his godfather, Hermenegildo for his maternal grandmother and godmother, and Teódulo for the saint day of his birth. In other countries, truth commissions have allowed the deep wounds caused by domestic conflict and tyranny to be exposed and then healed; Spain has instead buried its collective memory. Francisco Franco was a career soldier who rose through the ranks until the mid-1930s. The flowers on Francisco Franco’s tombstone today, the 40th anniversary of his death, will be as fresh as on any other day. If that happens, maybe at last we can have unity, “The PP under Aznar was full of the sons and grandsons of Franco’s men,” said Mr Martínez Soler, who was sacked as a television news presenter days after Mr Aznar won power in 1996. King Juan Carlos led Spain to democracy and in 1977 for the first time in four decades free and fair elections were held. James Taranto's Best of the Web Today column at OpinionJournal.com uses the phrase as a tag for newspaper headlines that indicate something is still happening when it should be obvious. Francisco Franco, general and leader of the Nationalist forces that overthrew the Spanish democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39); thereafter he was the head of the government of Spain until 1973 and head of state until his death in 1975. Prince Juan Carlos was sworn in as King of Spain on 22 November 1975. Neither the war nor the dictatorship is taught in schools and most of the leading historians on the subject are either British or American. It was one of the first catchphrases from the series to enter the general lexicon. The imminent death of Franco was a headline story on NBC News for a number of weeks prior to his death on November 20, 1975. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. Doctors said the cause of death was heart failure aggravated by peritonitis. Franco lingered near death for weeks before dying. ", The phrase is listed in The Oxford Dictionary of Catchphrases. "I ask pardon of all my enemies, as I pardon with all my heart all those who declared themselves my enemy, although I did not consider them to be so," the general had said. The group declared a permanent ceasefire in March 2006. D. He received support from the Soviet Union The fact that 40,000 victims of the civil war that saw him swept to power are buried at the site only adds to the feeling that, although Franco is gone, he cannot be forgotten. Learn more about Franco in this article. After Franco, there was a subconscious agreement on both sides not to discuss it – the last thing anyone wanted to do was to ignite another civil war. "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" is a catchphrase that originated in 1975 during the first season of NBC's Saturday Night (now called Saturday Night Live, or SNL) and which mocked the weeks-long media reports of the impending death of Francisco Franco.It was one of the first catchphrases from the series to enter the general lexicon.

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