Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was still an Axis-sponsored dictator left in Europe, but Generalissimo Francisco Franco's turn seemed to be coming up. The U.S., Britain and France (Soviet Russia has never recognized him) were turning the heat on the pudgy dictator...
...Spanish Republic, had the first official talks to be held between a high-ranking State Department officer and a high-ranking Spanish Republican in six years. The French Foreign Office sent Washington and London a note suggesting a joint revision (i.e. a possible rupture) in relations with Franco's Spain...
...Franco had been warned. U.S. Ambassador Norman Armour, before he left Madrid last month, told him that the U.S. was displeased with Spain's tardy evolution toward political freedom. Later British Ambassador Sir Victor Mallet drove home the same point...
...Franco's wobbly standing with the Allies had not been helped by the recent discovery, in Axis diplomatic papers, that only Nazi bungling stopped Franco from coming into the war on the Axis side in 1940. Had he received arms and food from Axis Europe in time, Spain would have made a "speedy entry" into the war with an assault on Gibraltar and French North Africa...
...extremes still dominated Europe's geographical edges. Franco in Spain and Salazar in Portugal were the precarious remnants of the Right. Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania, all in the Russian sphere, had held elections on the one-slate Moscow model, and produced the expected results. But in most of the rest of Europe the Communists, aware that their day had not come, played a cagey game...