Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Europe too was pitted with craters of political flux-in south Italy (where the Communist riots-TIME, July 16-were spreading); in Spain (where Francisco Franco was reported ready to dissolve the fascist Falange); in France (where General Charles de Gaulle was increasingly at loggerheads with the increasingly powerful leftist organizations...
...Vicente Lombardo Toledano, loud-speaking leftist chief of the powerful Latin American Federation of Labor. At San Francisco, declared Lombardo, Padilla had stooged for the U.S. State Department. He had an "anti-Soviet phobia"; his attacks on the Russian delegation had followed the propaganda line of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, pet hate of Latin American labor...
Since 1634, when Oberammergau's elders pledged perpetual production of the play at ten-year intervals (if God would spare their village from the plague), the schedule has been broken only three times: in 1870 by the Franco-Prussian War, in 1920 by the aftermath of World War I, in 1940 by World War II. The last performance, in 1934, celebrated the Play's tercentenary...
There were special victory awards for Marshal Stalin too. By decree of the Supreme Soviet he became the second living European to receive the title of Generalissimo (the first: Generalissimo Francisco Franco). Generalissimo Stalin was also awarded the Order of Victory, the Gold Star Medal of Hero of the Soviet Union, and the Order of Lenin...
...France, the French defeat in Syria had raised new questions about the leadership of General Charles de Gaulle. Would he still be strong enough, by the time of France's national election next fall, to keep the right and left in suspended solution? In Spain, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's position had been further weakened by the snub given him by the United Nations' Conference on International Organization in San Francisco. Italian leaders, after seesawing for weeks, had at last formed a new Government but were promptly faced by a new crisis. Even in Britain, the fiercely fought...