The Spanish Civil War - pg. 118

Once Franco was the Caudillo, he never allowed
opposition to develop. His speeches skilfully selected
compatible aspects of the rival Nationalist ideologies. He
affected an intensity of religious feeling to woo the Carlists
and the church. The Falangist slogan, 'Una Patria, Un
Estada, Un Caudillo', was converted to 'Una Patria:
España, Un Caudillo: Franco'. Historical parallels were
drawn with the first Reconquista. This safely inspired
the appropriate image in the appropriate mind. For the Falangists,
it was the birth of the nation. For the Carlists and the Alphonsine
monarchists it represented the establishment of a royal Catholic
dictatorship; for the church the age of ecclesiastical supremacy,
and for landowners the foundation of their wealth and power. Franco
was very different from Mussolini and Hitler. He was a cunning
opportunist who did not, despite his rhetoric, suffer from grandiose
visions of racial or national destiny.