Word: francoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan leftists scheduled a Madison Square Garden rally, with the wholehearted endorsement of the P.A.C.'s Sidney Hillman, to protest further U.S. appeasement of Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco. In Congress, Senators Ball, Burton, Hill and Hatch-whose bipartisan B²H² Resolution helped put the Senate on record for international cooperation-revived their demands for a precise definition of foreign policy. Their worthy object: to tell the world in advance just what sort of postwar treaties the new senate will or will not approve, thus removing one cause of intra-Allied distrust. New York...
Rome's humorous weekly Cantachiaro (Chanticleer) has crowed impudently ever since liberation. It has no political ties, boasts that it is an "anti" periodical. Under youthful, clever Editor Franco Monicelli, it has flung satiric articles and slapstick cartoons at whomever and whatever it pleases, not stopping at the Italian Government and the Anglo-American masters...
Last week through the censorship leaked the news that five important democratic leaders had been suddenly arrested, and imprisoned incommunicado in barracks of the military police. Most important of the prisoners: Virgilio de Mello Franco, who had helped put Vargas in power in 1930. Two others were leading editors of pro-democratic newspapers...
Prim, cautious Lord Templewood-whom the late, great Lord Curzon once characterized as "descended from a long line of maiden aunts"-did not go so far as to suggest that Franco, the Falange, the Army, the Church, the big landowners, or the aristocracy might have had something to do with Spain's plight. He found the villainy of Germany corrupting not only Spain but all Europe: "Posterity will say that the worst German crime is the studied destruction of all moral values of Europe...
Then the man who had co-authored the Hoare-Laval deal, who had served Appeasers Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain 1) praised the British-Soviet and Franco-Soviet 20-year treaties; 2) suggested that they be supplemented by air defense agreements; 3) proposed that the United Nations should agree to a bill of rights providing for religious freedom and forbidding imprisonment without trial...