Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department spelled out the reasons last week why UNO could not admit Franco Spain. Fifteen documents recovered from Axis secret diplomatic files proved that Francisco Franco had been an even closer ally of Hitler than the world had supposed...
Fascist Bargains. On Aug. 15, 1940, Franco wrote Benito Mussolini: "Since the beginning of the present conflict it has been our intention to make the greatest efforts in our preparations in order to enter the foreign war at a favorable opportunity...
...Eberhard von Stohrer, German ambassador at Madrid, reported that Franco's price was Gibraltar, French Morocco and the Oran section of Algeria, plus military and economic assistance...
Spain, argued the Führer then and in later letters, must come in without conditions. Wrote he: "For about one thing, Caudillo, there must be a clarity: we are at this time fighting a battle of life and death and cannot at this time make any gifts." Franco drew himself up, replied: "I stand ready at your side, entirely and decidedly at your disposal, united in a common historical destiny, desertion from which would mean my suicide and that of the cause which I have led and represent in Spain...
...Britain stays quiet-and rains bring good spring crops-Franco might yet slide through. He turned his fat back on Don Juan of Bourbon...