Making No Haste Slowly
Flannery, Harry W.
ing while themselves being open to more pragmatic considerations. By providing a wide-ranging forum for exploring approaches to social change, CCUM must ultimately open itself to the charge...
...And the Communists had internal problems of their own...
...This followed statements on social justice made by Cardinal Enrique y Tarancon, archbishop of Madrid...
...The Cyprus situation remains diplomatieally delicate and no one cared to make a point of it...
...The cost of construction alone increased 22 percent in the first six months of this year...
...Further resignations were stopped only by the personal intervention of Prince Juan Carlos...
...Otherwise, Arias Navarro called for "popular participation in political and social a f f a i r s . . , as wide as possible excluding only those who excluded themselves by resorting to subversion and violence...
...He was one of the major economic experts named by Arias Navarro...
...Despite the pleas, Francisco Fernandez Ordonez resigned as president of the National Institute of Industry, the nation's biggest employer and developer...
...Only in the salons of Athens, which ironically came under Papandreou's criticism, was PASOK considered a threat...
...The theory went that if you were going to oppose Karamanlis you would go all the way and vote for Papandreou, a sharper alternative than the Center's more moderate George Mavros...
...But even so the political wheels moved swiftly...
...Partly because the people there still see the policemen and still fear them, and in some cases because they really believe him to be "O Sotiros tis Ellades" (The Savior of Greece) they would support their leader...
...Francisco Labadie made this assertion in his keynote speech at ceremonies marking the 41st anniversary of the founding of the Falange, Spain's fascist party...
...But only the left was divided...
...The program, proposed to the Cortes on February 12, when Arias Navarro assumed office, was liberal in every aspect, except in regard to the Catholic Church, which was the object of his eriticism...
...As a result CCUM, along with the charismatics, will probably be returning in ever-greater numbers next year to Notre Dame PETER a. HENRIOT (Father Peter 1. Henriot, S.I., is a Sta// Associate at the Center o/ Concern, Washington, D.C...
...Apostua praised Pio Cabanillas, the dismissed Information Minister, and Barrera de Irimo...
...Under the present system, the unions include labor and management under one roof in an effort to eliminate class struggle...
...He refused to attend the Falange anniversary ceremonies...
...And when they emerged they had given Constantine Karamanlis and his New Democracy party an astounding parliamentary majority...
...His campaign organizers privately admitted that their unspoken slogan was "No More Tanks" and the people believed it...
...And he proved right...
...He asserted that "a new bill on local administration" would "be presented to the Cortes before May 31...
...This was followed by the resignation of eleven senior Information Ministry officials and threatened resignation of other officials...
...The Communist party, legal for the first time since 1947, also saw Papandreou's socialist stand as a threat to its vote...
...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 THE GREEK ELECTION DEICIOCRA Cu r HOICIE For the first time in ten years Greeks freely entered polling booths and marked the ballots of their choice-democracy was restored...
...At the same time, this frustration is breaking new and necessary ground for the church in this country...
...By providing a wide-ranging forum for exploring approaches to social change, CCUM must ultimately open itself to the charge of being frustrating to most participants...
...When Karamanlis' opponents accused him of moving too slowly to punish the junta he banished the leaders to an Aegean Island...
...But Karamanlis understood that in a country where the word for east is the classical word for Turkey, the people consider themselves Westerners...
...These associations, or parties, would operate within the National Movement, the only legal political entity in Spain...
...Above all, he recognized the people's need for stability...
...Many observers here thought PASOK might even finish second behind New Democracy...
...Among the eleven who resigned was Under Secretary of Information Marcelino Oreja, 39, who has stressed the need of press freedom and political liberalization in Spain...
...He said: "The government maintains conditions which permit (the Church) to discharge without bonds the sacred mission and the exercise of its apostolate, but recognizes with the same firmness, that which interferes in questions that, going over the temporal horizon of the community, are reserved to the justice and decision of the civil authority...
...It was an unusual election where the only real question was whether the Greeks would give a personal mandate to Constantine Karamanlis...
...In the villages and on the islands all you heard was Karamanlis...
...The bishops said, "We wish to carry out our duty free of pressures...
...His resignation and that of Barrera de Irimo, both of whom had proposed plans for stemming the critical economic crisis in Spain, will have an immediate effect upon what the government does about the situation...
...The latter advocated complete separation of Church and State, the end to the right of the Spanish chief of state to name bishops, and asked that the Church cease to be "an instrument for any political or partisan purpose...
...A new concordat was then pending...
...These reforms, although limited in scope, would grant epochal freedoms for Spain...
...Barrera de Irimo warned the liberals that if more of their leading government representatives quit, the Council of Ministers would be left completely in the hapds of the Right...
...Labadie declared that the Falange would defend their views against all "conspirators...
...He promised decrees "allowing for separate assoeiat.ions of workers and management within the officially sponsored un!ons which are now the only legal ones in Spain...
...But what it means for the future, both internally here and in policy toward America, is a more complex question...
...It has not progressed...
...The only other candidate of the Right-Peter Garoufalias, a pro-monarchy, pro-junta joke-posed no threat to New Democracy...
...Luis Apostua, the Catholic daily's regular political commentator, stated agreement with Tacitus that the death blow to Spanish liberalization had been dealt by Francisco Labadie in the Fascist meeting...
...However, Pio Cabanillas Gallas, the Minister of Information, was recently fired, with vice president and housing minister, Antonio Barrera de Irmo, then resigning in protest...
...Although the official announcement gave no reason for the resignation, government sources said he took the action to protest against the purge of liberals from key posts...
...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 FREEDOMS IN SPAIN IqAKING NO HASTE HrL u Barcelona President Carlos Arias Navarro's program for freedoms for Spain is dead...
...When the Center implied that a New Democracy Parliament could reinstate the king, Karamanlis set a date for a popular referendum on the monarchy...
...That, quite simply, is what happened in the Greek election...
...The words would reCommonweal: 257...
...Then the Court of Appeals announced an investigation into charges of high treason against Papadopoulas and 49 others...
...As a result 20 December 1974: 25"6 of the inflation, unemployment and strikes have been widespread...
...The old Center Union of the late George Papandreou, which had won the last pre-coup election, joined with the New Political Forces, a group of somewhat younger men and women, many of whom had been jailed by the junta...
...He used the term constantly as a codeword--in much the same way Nixon used "law and order"--implying that his opposition was immature and inviting the return of the military...
...others will do it...
...Karamanlis called the elections early, while still at the peak of his popularity from triumphal return last July, in order to ensure a majority...
...Tacitus, the name used by a liberal Christian Democratic group in writing for the Madrid Catholic newspaper, Ya, said that "confusion and anxiety are at high levels...
...Karamanlis kept insisting that it was not politics as usual, that the people had reached a new "politieal maturity...
...Steel, which is fundamental in building apartments, business and factory buildings in this country, went up 52.3 percent...
...The campaign was devoid of other issues, and any that emerged Karamanlis quickly defused...
...Honor guest was, Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon, who has been chosen by the 81-year-old Franco as his successor...
...The people relish their new freedom and don't want to jeopardize it, so they voted for Karamanlis as a guarantee against the tanks...
...His speech had been approved by Generalissimo Francisco Franco, chief of state, who presided over the occasion...
...He also declared for "a bill establishing the right of political associations so that they may appear in national political life...
...In a time when almost any CIA plot seems plausible, this one doesn't, since anti-Americanism serves as the major plank in Papandreou's platform...
...Papandreou tried to expand anti-Americanism into a rejection of the Common Market and a chance to consolidate ties with Eastern Europe...
...Cardinal Nareisco Jubany Arnau, archbishop of Barcelona, and others and the statement of all the Spanish bishops, "The Church and the Political Community...
...With all this infighting onlookers began to believe that Greece was back to politics as usual with no cooperation and possibly no government...
...One, granting greater freedom of the press, went into effect almost immediately...
...A Barcelona newspaper columnist warned that if the reforms are not enacted, "the next opening will not come from this regime...
...Opposition parties mustered their forces and political pundits began talking seriously about whether any party would have enough votes to form a government...
...HARRY W. FLANNERY (Harry W. Flannery, a long-time contributor, is an American journalist now living in Spain...
...But the party was dealt a major blow when Andreas Papandreou, son of George and hero of youth, returned from exile and formed the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Union (PASOK...
...Some members of the Center even hinted darkly that Papandreou had been hired by the CIA to split the opposition and ensure Karamanlis' victory...
Vol. 101 • December 1974 • No. 10
