Word: francoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unenthusiastically crowded square in Burgos last week one of Europe's last remaining old-school dictators rose to congratulate himself. On the tenth anniversary of his rise to power even Francisco Franco himself displayed only lukewarm enthusiasm. "Sometimes," he mused, "I wonder what will happen if the people who have given me their support in these past ten years will give me some support for more years when our problems are solved...
Then the Caudillo abandoned humility for a boast. "Only two countries in the world know where they are going," he said. "They are Spain and Russia." Russia's goal was world conquest; Franco's own (he explained later) was to provide three shirts for every Spanish peasant...
...possibility of formal solidification of the Madrid-Buenos Aires Axis is increased by the presence in Argentina of a Spanish mission, headed by Tomas Suner, the intent and probable outcome of which is to secure economic assistance for Franco's bleeding government. Though neither country as yet possesses the economic or material attributes of a first rate power, Argentina, at least, has the potential capacity for an extended and effective military effort...
...been too often the case in our domestic history, the realities of profit and loss statements have now been substituted for moral value in our present foreign policy. Only in those instances where the prospect of capital gain has not been a factor has our policy towards Franco been uncompromising. Such a case arose at Lake Success last week when the United States joined with the other nations at the conference in refusing permission for Spain to participate in international control of narcotics. John G. Winant, American representative to the meetings, who voted to exclude Spain on the narcotics question...
...face of the almost certain presence in Spain of German SS leaders, laboratories, and military equipment, America continues to do business with Franco. Aside from the reprehensibility of dealing with a nation which for almost ten years has held a large and important section of its population in semi-slavery maintaining relations with the cradle of the new European Fascism is almost treason. And until such time as we face the Spanish situation fully and fearlessly, the United States cannot resume its discarded mantle of moral leadership of the world...