Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winds that blow Spain toward economic bankruptcy are sharper now than ever before. High prices for food fan the little man's desperation to a sharper pitch. The stink of governmental inefficiency and corruption is rising above normal. But the best guess is that Generalissimo Francisco Franco will probably not reap his whirlwind just yet. For he holds as tight as ever the only windbreaks that count-the army and the police...
Hypochondriac purists will still have a large supply of pessimistic dismay and insomnia to keep them happy, for the first United Nations meeting on American soil dealt inadequately or not at all with many international sore spots. Franco Spain received only a routine rebuke; the veto is still too powerful a weapon in U.N. procedure; and trusteeship questions are still undecided. But the credits outweigh the debits, and the recent General Assembly Session may have charted a road on which nations can travel together in peace...
...such quiet intervention, Lie has made the job of U.N. Secretary-General more influential than many U.N. delegates expected. He intervened (rather clumsily) in the Iran issue last spring and bluntly stated his anti-Franco views on Spain at the present Assembly's opening. He managed to get the Council's rules of procedure revised so as to give the Secretary-General the right to "make either oral or written statements : . . concerning any question under consideration. . . ." Last week, in a speech before Committee No. 5 in defense of U.N.'s proposed budget, Lie, on grounds of international...
Around the world last week were anniversary celebrations of the 1917 Russian Revolution which brought the Bolsheviks to power. Even Franco Spain was faithful in its fashion (see above). As usual, the most notable celebration was in Moscow. Notably absent: ailing, aging Joseph Stalin, 66, whom rumor put at Sochi on the Black Sea. where he rested for two months last autumn...
Soviet newspapers carrying the Zhdanov speech featured a cartoon captioned Crew of Warmongers. It showed a fire truck driven by a cigar-smoking Churchill. The other firemen were Hearst, Baruch (with a bucketful of atom bombs), Franco, a Turk and a Greek. Said a poem accompanying the cartoon: "Although this crew carries a fire hose, it's really a flame thrower...