Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other countries [and] part of a great political maneuver intended to improve the Vatican's position in the international arena." It said Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York, one of the 32, was carrying out the Vatican policy by "trying to persuade the American people to accept Franco...
...returned to his native Catalonia in 1931. He was awarded several first prizes in sculpture by the Catalan Government. His best known works are Maternity and The Three Graces, of which there is a copy in New York and one in Philadelphia. After the fall of Catalonia to Franco's fascist hordes, Fenosa returned to France...
Trinidad Perez Franco was routed out of comfortable obscurity by Rio newsmen, who tried to make her talk about her famed brother Francisco in Spain, got a discreet reply: "I have not seen Francisco since 1912." But Franco's middle-aged expatriate sister, who runs a suburban fruit store for fun ("I like the colors"), was more colorfully quoted by neighbors: "To hell with Francisco. . . . He was always a little effeminate...
...life; benign, bald Bishop Konrad von Preysing of Berlin, who, when the Nazis came into power, said publicly: "We have fallen into the hands of criminals and fools." Typical Spanish appointment: small, bespectacled Archbishop Enrique Pla y Deniel of Toledo, who was the first prelate appointed in Spain after Franco signed his agreement with the Vatican in 1941, and whose palace at Salamanca Franco used as headquarters during part of the civil...
...Armour was ready to step down. Like the good diplomat he was, he gave no reasons other than fatigue and a sense of duty done. But it was clear that he had found few satisfactions in Madrid; he told newsmen that he had observed no effective opposition to Franco inside Spain, no signs of reform...