Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Generalissimo Francisco Franco last week hinted that he might soon step down on his own terms and in his own time...
Braden led off with a bull's-eye: an anecdote of British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare in Franco's Spain. When "nationalists" smashed the embassy's windows, Sir Samuel telephoned to Franco's Foreign Minister, who promised to send police. "Don't send me more police, Mr. Minister," Ambassador Hoare replied. "Send me fewer nationalists...
...half-past eleven on the wintry night of Feb. 1, 1939, the Spanish Republican Government of Premier Juan Negrin assembled in the basement of an ancient castle near the snowy Pyrenees. Their three-year struggle against Franco and his Nazi-Fascist allies was broken at last; under German and Italian bombardment, a half million starving, destitute Spaniards were straggling through the mountains toward the French border...
...that fat Francisco Franco's clock is close to striking twelve, on the nose of the news comes Isabel de Palencia's account of the men & women who ran away to fight another day for freedom. Smouldering Freedom, is partly an updating of her own earlier autobiography (I Must Have Liberty), partly a picture of Mexico's "Pilgrim Spain" of Republican exiles...
...some 12,000 fugitives from Franco settled in Mexico, most of them in and around Mexico City. They found the language and customs congenial, relief for those who needed it efficient and openhanded. The Cardenas Government offered immediate free citizenship for the asking, set up a Casa de España through which scholars and other refugee intellectuals could carry...