Word: franco
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gave Spain's fat Francisco Franco another kick down the ladder (see INTERNATIONAL...
Questions. This left most of the urgent Franco-American questions unanswered-at least publicly. What of German occupation, in which France wants a greater share? What of U.S. bases on French islands in the Pacific? What of French return to Indo-China? Presumably, most of the questions would not be answered until they had been dealt with at the forthcoming Council of Foreign Ministers. Meanwhile had the General made a good friend out of the President? Official Washington agreed that he had certainly tried...
...State Department has been more unmercifully attacked by the liberal-left wing press than Jimmy Dunn. (Reputedly, he had a big hand in the pro-Franco and pro-Vichy appeasement policies of the early war years.) But Jimmy Dunn is also a shy, aloof, painstaking worker who knows State Department doings inside out. He started as a clerk 26 years ago, married an Armour, lives fashionably on Massachusetts Avenue...
...feuding factions of Spain's opposition-in-exile, enormously heartened by the Big Three's slap at Franco (TIME, Aug.13), took a long stride down the road to Madrid. In Mexico City, now the capital of the Spanish emigration, all major parties last week agreed to recognize ex-Cortes President Diego Martinez Barrio as Provisional President of the Republic of Spain...
...settle such questions as the Dardanelles, the Adriatic (Trieste), the former Italian colonies, the Russian evacuation of Iran, or even Austria. But delegates felt that the powers were moving toward some sort of agreement on most of these issues. On only one such point was complete agreement already achieved: Franco Spain was beyond the pale...