Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overloaded agenda before Christmas, although lights burned late in the Palais de Chaillot (see cut). So it was agreed that this would be Session Three, Part One, and that Part Two would convene on April i at Flushing Meadow. Business carried over to April will include the Italian colonies, Franco Spain, the proposed U.N. guard force, and the treatment of Indians in South Africa...
...Namesake. In Mexico City last week, on the eve of the 38th anniversary of the revolution, a flashing-eyed, 18-year-old beauty named Rosa Maria Franco was chosen "Adelita 1948." With rifle belts slung across her shoulders, she led a parade across the Zocalo and was wined & dined at Ciro...
...very much alike. Both are guided by their strongest associates. The global outlook of Mr. Dulles in Albany closely matches the views of Secretary Marshall in Washington. In the past year, the CRIMSON has objected to the Administration's policy reversal on Palestine, and its new-found warmth for Franco. The CRIMSON has also doubted the wisdom of a peace-time draft. However, it is unlikely that Mr. Dewey's advisers would lead him to change these unfortunate policies. At the same time, Mr. Wallace's ideas on foreign affairs must be rejected; they have degenerated into a stubborn apology...
...answer to this is that bases in Spain would be available to the U.S. anyway-since it is unlikely that Franco would side with Russia. Open U.S. reliance on Spanish bases would merely panic the French, who would regard it as advance notice that the U.S. does not expect to hold France. The French want the U.S. to make its stand on the Rhine, not at the Pyrenees...
Western reconciliation with Franco would be a serious blow to the West's moral position. Red propaganda would offer it as proof that Western democracy is fascism in disguise. These political liabilities of friendship with Franco seem to outweigh the advantage of advance agreement on bases...