Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since 1938, Quintanilla (now 50) has lived quietly with his handsome U.S. wife and son Paul, 6, in a Greenwich Village apartment. But bombs still go off in his head, and he has not stopped fighting Franco. His latest attack: a book of pen & ink souvenirs of Franco's Black Spain (Reynal & Hitchcock; $3.50). As calm and bitter as a cup of etching acid, the drawings are sure to cut deep into democratic consciences...
...eleven nations at the horseshoe table, including the three (France, Mexico, Poland) which had originally backed Russia's demand for immediate U.N. action against Franco, supported Australia's proposal for a five-man subcommittee to sift the facts on Spain and suggest by May 31 what "practical measures" U.N. could take. Andrei Gromyko said he "intensely disagreed" but would abstain, "realizing that my vote against the proposal would make its adoption impossible." Gromyko thus reiterated Russia's sweeping interpretation of the veto. Earlier, Russia had threatened another walkout from U.N. After the Council voted down...
...Rasputin, Serge fled to Sweden with his family when the Bolsheviks came to power. Eventually he made his way to England, studied economics at Cambridge University, quit to apply what he had learned. In his first deal, he made $17,000. At 24 he was running Paris' Banque Franco Asiatique, dabbling in French politics, performing feats of financial legerdemain for all comers-at a fee. He was also playing the French money market. Result: in 1935 the French Government ran him out of the country for selling francs short (he made a reported three million francs [$210,000] doing...
...YORK--A security Council sub-committee tonight invited all 51 members of the United National to submit pertinent evidence on the Polish charge that the Spanish regime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco endangers world peace...
...made known, the United Nations has received 461 telegrams and letters from non-governmental sources concerning Spain. Five of them objected to "outside interference" with Spain. All others were hostile to the Franco regime...