Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spain was a test issue before the United Nations Security Council. Was Francisco Franco's regime a potential threat to world peace? And, if so-as Australia's stubborn, logical Herbert Vere Evatt put it last week: what are we going to do about...
...first time, a U.N. body reached agreement on a major political issue dividing the great powers ; the report on Spain was weak, but it established the precedent for stronger ones to follow." The subcommittee (Australia, Poland, France, China and Brazil) went along with the U.S.-British view that Franco was not a "threat to peace" in the sense that he planned attack. They went along, too, with the Russian view that Franco had been an Axis plotter and that the very existence of such a government constituted a "potential" menace...
...subcommittee unanimously recommended that, if Franco is still in power next September, the U.N. General Assembly should then vote to ask all its 51 nations to break diplomatic relations with him. When the formula came before the full Council, Britain and the U.S. might ask for delay in applying the quarantine, but in the end, the Council was likely to accept the subcommittee's plan. Worldwide diplomatic isolation of Spain by U.N. action might be enough to unhorse Franco...
...succeeding Stettinius as American delegate to the United Nations. He expressed little concern with the current troubles with the Soviet Union but viewed our relations with that country as a task of long term but not insoluble difficulty. Disparaging the proposal to sever relations or use economic sanctions against Franco as one which would not accomplish what we wished to achieve, he termed Spain "a very difficult problem...
Spain. Next day mild, dapper José Giral, Premier of the Spanish Republican Government in exile, appeared before the Council's subcommittee on Spain to warn that Franco had 1,590,000 soldiers. Earlier in the week the U.S. had reported that Spain's "armed forces have continued their overall trend of gradual reduction in size...