Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Madrid, the correspondent of Maria Eva Duarte de Peron's newspaper, Democraticia, cabled an alluring preview. The reception for Argentina's First Lady, when she came to get the Order of Isabel La Catolica* from Dictator Francisco Franco, would be "the most brilliant ever organized for a foreign guest...
...well-trained troops, Smith probably had the edge, for his most effective fighters included a case-hardened cavalry division and contingents of marines. Smith's opposite number in the rebel camp was tantalum-tough, moonfaced ex-President Rafael Franco, leader of the vaguely leftist Febrerista Party...
...biggest fish who got away. Belgium's arch-collaborator fled the country in the last month of the war, in a plane which crashed in Franco Spain. After he had been interned for 15 months, the Spanish Government announced that he had mysteriously escaped. He is now believed to be either in South America or still in Spain...
...other three members of the so-called Big Four has already concluded bipartisan non-aggression pacts among themselves against the German nation, to supplement the protection under the UN charter. This series was concluded last week when an Anglo-French agreement was signed in the wake of Franco-Russian and Anglo-Russian Treaties. Mr. Byrnes has suggested that the United States also sign bilateral protection agreement against Germany, and there remains but the question of whether we shall place all our trust in the United Nations. R.M.F...
Obviously not a convert to Spanish Republicanism, he nevertheless repudiates in most emphatic and explicit tones the entire administration of the Caudillo and would substitute for it a constitutional monarchy. As forceful as his dislike of Franco is Hoare's hearty endorsement of Count Francisco Jordana, who was for two years Franco's Minister for Foreign Affairs. He credits the success of the North African invasion operations partly to Jordana's co-operative and discreet attitude--"pro-Ally to the core...