By Monica Uriel MADRID, 7 (UPI) – Forty years after the death of Francisco Franco, the Royal Academy of History (RAH) rectified and in his biographical dictionary defines it as dictator.
We announced the new director of the RAH, Carmen Iglesias, told Cadena Ser.
Currently, at the entrance of the dictator Franco (1939 -1975) reads:. “He set up an authoritarian regime, but not totalitarian, since political forces supporting him were unified into a moving and the State”
Franco, occupying five pages of the work, provided is cited as “Generalissimo” or “Head of State” and its military value is highlighted. At the entrance appear phrases like “Francisco Franco soon became famous for the cold value on the field unfolded”
addition, on the civil war (1936-1939) it reads. “A three-year long war allowed him to defeat an enemy that had initially superior forces. To this end, missing potential markets, and with the hostility of France and Russia, was to establish close engagements with Italy and Germany. “The biography was
written by Luis Suarez, academic and specialized in medieval historian, former senior management and member of the Franco Francisco Franco Foundation. Three years ago RAH refused to amend the biography of Franco after criticism received. The Congress of Deputies, with the rejection of the Popular Party president Mariano Rajoy, came to freeze the annual subsidy to the biographical dictionary of the RAH if not reviewed and corrected errors they contained. A commission created in 2011 by the RAH concluded that among the 500 people born between 1875 and 1931, in its military, political and ecclesiastical majority, 14 had to be revised in its entirety and tweak other 16. The RAH breached the recommendations of the commission she created and Rajoy’s government adopted in 2012 a new grant to the dictionary without corrections be carried out.
dictionary with 40,000 biographies, the RAH compared to the Biographical Dictionary of Oxford, has received more than 6 million in government grants since 1999. Now
Iglesias, director of the RAH since December, announced that Franco will be a dictator for the dictionary from the end of the year, when the new digital version. Iglesias, who was preceptor of King Philip VI as a prince, however believed that about this biographical entry has been an “excessive tension”. UR / ACZ
04/07/2015 17:47
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