Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France is aware that its prestige has waned; last week in Paris a Franco-Allied Good Will Committee tried to find France's way back to the world's heart through the world's nose. TIME Correspondent Joe Weston was among 800 U.S. civilians and soldiers who attended a good will lecture on French perfumes. His report...
Copello was supported by the many pro-Franco Spanish priests who have emigrated to Argentina since the Spanish Civil War. But there were dissidents, even within the church. One was famed Bishop Miguel de Andrea, who did not sign the pastoral letter. Instead, he took a slap at Peron demagoguery. To a group of graduating nurses, the Bishop gave a solemn warning: "It is a tragic error to sell liberty for a few social and economic advantages...
Helene Lazareff knows how to mix such ingredients into a palatable Franco-American dish. She started out as an ethnologist, lived with an African tribe two months and sold a series of articles about the adventure to L'Intransigeant, caught on with Paris-Soir, married its editor, Pierre Lazareff. As the editor of Marie-Claire (a sort of Ladies' Home Journal with a French accent), she ran its circulation to 1,250,-ooo copies a week before France fell. As wartime refugees in the U.S., the Lazareffs kept busy, he with the French section...
Generalissimo Francisco Franco, ear still to the ground and still a little hard of hearing, let it be known that he wanted Barcelona newspapers to stop calling him Caudillo (Chief). The preferred handle hereafter: "His Excellency the Chief of State...
...protest against Roman Catholic support of Franco Spain...