Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French repented one of their own dramatic gestures. Nearly two years ago, on the insistence of Communist cabinet members, Paris had stopped all trade with Spain, and closed the frontier. No other nation had gone that far, though most U.N. members joined in resolutions against Axis-loving Francisco Franco. By last week the French felt that the gesture had hurt French exports more than it had hurt Franco. They called it off, reopened the border...
Professor Elliott, who is now staff director of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was charged by the paper with two goals: "An Anglo-American alliance with the Arab states, and the inclusion of Franco Spain in the Marshall Plan...
...this opinion against belligerent questions, his refusal to make clear the possible motives of this organization--in short, the blatantly prejudiced, untenable, enigmatic nature of his entire stand, should suffice in itself to condemn him in the eyes of anyone who heard him speak. Similarly, Hart's defense of Franco Spain was so undisguised in its emphasis, so contradictory and illogical in its substance, that it would be difficult to imagine him dangerously influencing human minds...
Rumpled, dark-eyed Bernardo Ibáñez has worked most of his 45 years at bettering the workers' lot. As a country schoolteacher, he organized Chile's first teachers' union. Back in Chile in 1936, after he had been wounded fighting the Franco forces at Madrid, he organized the Chilean Workers Federation (C.T.Ch.), which he soon made one of the most powerful in Latin America. At a labor conference in Mexico he became a friend of Vicente Lombardo Toledano, and returned to Chile with such a Mexican accent and so many scrapes, that Chileans still call...
...Francisco Franco of Spain and Juan Domingo Perón of Argentina suddenly pelted each other with goodies. From Franco to Perón: 100 cases (1,404 bottles) of Spanish wines & liquors. From Perón to Franco: five blooded horses, one bull, one cow, one heifer...