Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forget that the same department which adopted what Sumner Welles called an "incredibly stupid" policy for Argentina, and united the Spanish almost solidly around Franco by its "White Paper," is also determining the U.S. policy in China...
...Ernie Bevin, target of spirited but disorganized criticism, triumphantly defended his foreign policy, although many Laborites would like to see a strong anti-Franco policy on Spain and a pro-Zionist policy on Palestine...
...Evatt, who knew that the U.S. was ready to go along on a denunciation of the Franco regime but was reluctant to see a specific time set for the proposed diplomatic boycott (TIME, June 10), argued forcefully for almost an hour in support of the subcommittee's recommendation. When he finished, the other nine Council members looked at each other and at Chairman Alexandre Parodi for several minutes of embarrassed silence...
While the U.N. has been pondering the question whether Francisco Franco is or is not a gangster (see INTERNATIONAL), the Generalissimo has been trying in various ways to prove he is no such thing. In Madrid last week, with Franco's broad-minded consent, a book of memoirs by Carlton J. H. Hayes, U.S. Ambassador to Spain from 1942 to the end of 1944, was published in Spanish translation...
...often said that he is against all forms of totalitarianism. Nevertheless, in his Wartime Mission in Spain (published in English last year), Hayes could make a choice of evils. He took the view that Russia, being both totalitarian and pagan, was worse than totalitarian but pious Spain, and that Franco's regime was not as bad as friends of Russia made out. Much of his comment was distinctly unflattering to Franco, however, and he insisted that his text be strictly followed in the translation. It was, except for the circumlocution of one word, "gangster" (which Hayes used in referring...