Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yankee Ships. For the first time since before the Spanish civil war, a visiting squadron of four U.S. warships (cruisers Columbus and Juneau, destroyers Stribling and Bordelon) steamed into the harbor of El Ferrol, where Francisco Franco was born. While ships of the Spanish Navy fired a salute, the U.S. vessels dropped anchor. High-ranking Spanish officials climbed aboard the flagship Columbus to greet Admiral Richard Conolly, Commander in Chief U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. From then on, until the Americans left five days later, there was a round of receptions, dinners and ceremonies. U.S. sailors poured ashore...
Citizens gathered around the sailors in the streets and crowded quays, staring with awe at the U.S. men and warships. To pro-Franco folk the visit looked like a friendly gesture towards their leader. To anti-Franco folk the U.S. flag and sailors were a demonstration of a way of life for which they long...
...limiting official recognition of Admiral Conolly's presence to a private cocktail party in the chargé d'affaires' home. Unlike the Navy, which thinks of Spain as a neglected sector of Western Europe's defense, State thinks that the only way to liberalize Franco's regime is through the hostility of U.S. opinion towards the Spanish dictator. Now, wailed DOS men, Franco would be harder than ever to liberalize. Undeniably, the Navy's independent foreign policy had bolstered Franco's internal position...
...King. Jordan's Abdullah arrived at La Coruña, a few miles down the coast from El Ferrol, before the Americans left. Disgruntled because his British masters had put him aboard an ordinary passenger steamer, the Highland Brigade, the Hashimite sovereign had his pride restored when Host Franco stopped the British steamer in the harbor and provided a Spanish naval launch for his Arab guest to come ashore in regal style...
...afternoon, Franco in white admiral's uniform and Abdullah in kalpak boarded the Spanish cruiser Miguel de Cervantes. A high wind blew off Abdullah's kalpak but a lackey promptly produced another. All was shipshape as the Cervantes steamed proudly into El Ferrol to receive a 21-gun salute from other Spanish vessels and the visiting U.S. warships. Beaming with delight, Franco waved at the U.S. Marines as they presented arms while the Columbus band struck up Spain's national anthem, the Marcha Real...