Word: francoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caudillo without a King. As Leopold prepared to enter Switzerland, another royal scion was asked to leave it. To the modest Lausanne villa of Don Juan, the Spanish Pretender, came two august emissaries from Generalissimo Francisco Franco. They were reported to bear the Caudillo's long deferred invitation to return to Spain. Aspiring Don Juan had waited patiently for 14 years. Perhaps it was time for him too to pack...
...President Truman echoed Bevin, and plainly said that none of the Allies liked Franco or his Government...
Russians rated Francisco Franco's political life expectancy at not more than six months. That, explained a Soviet spokes man, was why the Paris conference on Tangier ended last week with agreement to meet again next February - with Spain participating. Meanwhile, strategic Tan gier will revert to the international control prevailing before Franco's Moorish troops seized...
...Three pressure on Franco began when Russia insisted on a place at the Tangier conference, but refused to sit down with representatives of Fascist Spain. Spain was excluded. Next came the Russian-initiated Big Three agreement at Potsdam barring Franco's Government from the United Nations organization. After that...
...Franco himself seemed to be seeking a way of placating Britain and the U.S. He hoped a restoration of Spanish monarchy might be enough. Meanwhile the Russians, by taking a leading part in the conference on Tangier, had (for the first time since the Revolution) achieved diplomatic recognition that Russia's influence reached all the way to the Atlantic...