Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are many things that Latin Americans want to discuss with their big neighbors-about keeping Argentina in diplomatic Coventry and sending Franco to it -but there were two subjects that they were intent on bringing up in many forms...
Carmencita Franco, only daughter of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, officially discarded childhood on her 18th birthday, unveiled her Spanish-style beauty (see cut) at a debutante ball in Madrid's El Pardo palace...
Then the Congress voted for: 1) a big French army; 2) confiscation of traitors' property; 3) "implacable justice" to traitors; 4) "Republican order"; 5) a policy of international security founded on friendship with all democratic countries, as exemplified by the Franco-Russian pact...
...Painter Pablo Picasso's big Left Bank garret studio last week an impressive group of French intellectuals† met to hasten the overthrow of Dictator Francisco Franco...
...French Intellectuals' Committee to Help Spain'' had reconstituted itself right after France's liberation. It had arranged this meeting, one of whose purposes was to organize all anti-Franco Frenchmen. For a unity meeting, it was uncommonly harmonious. Painter Picasso's guests agreed that, at the moment, Dictator Franco's position was precarious. Spanish Republicans had fought to liberate France. Now the time had come to return the favor-somehow. It remained only to decide...