Word: francoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole job had taken a little under three months. There had been a great deal of pushing, pulling and hauling on wrong ends. At the last minute the House, at the prodding of Wisconsin's Republican Representative Alvin Edward O'Konski, had added Franco's fascist Spain to the list of beneficiaries. Administration and Senate leaders, appalled by this blunder which gave Communists something to shout about, had got Spain yanked out. Bravely, at week's end, ERP floated...
...cross* and its little red ribbon, might have had her decoration twelve years ago. In 1936, her appointment had been approved by Léon Blum, then premier. But a few days before the ceremony his own paper, Le Populaire, attacked her as a secret supporter of Franco. So Mme. Tabouis wrote an angry letter telling Blum that she "was not accustomed to being caressed and beaten by the same hand, and didn't want to be decorated...
...Communist Flight. U.S. Intelligence had discovered that Russia intended to come out for the return of Trieste to Italy; the State Department beat the Russians to it. France's Foreign Minister, Georges Bidault, in Turin to sign a Franco-Italian trade agreement, announced that the U.S., Great Britain and France had decided that the Free Territory of Trieste should be returned to Italian sovereignty. He also promised a drive to help Italy regain some of her war-lost colonies...
...Duchess of Valencia, who speaks her monarchist mind in public, was out about $45,000. That was the latest fine levied against her by the Franco cabinet. The duchess, a dark-eyed beauty who was once fined for making monarchist noises in a tea shop, was charged this time with inciting a college-boy rebellion...
...secret mission to Dictators Franco and Salazar to enlist their...