Word: francoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desert him (though it called to its aid some white-hot Tennessee cuss words) when Pearl Harbor caught him politely conferring with two grinning Japanese diplomats. It kept him at least outwardly calm when New Deal left-wingers shrilly accused him of appeasing Petain, Darlan, Franco and Badoglio...
...F.F.I. If General Charles de Gaulle did not support them too, he could expect harsh words, perhaps harsh acts, from the Left. The other sharp edge of the problem was international: Russia, and antifascists throughout the world, were voluble in shouting that the time had come to topple Franco...
Said the Quai d'Orsay: France has diplomatic obligations to Spain. The French Government had ordered all Spanish Maquis in the F.F.I, to withdraw ten miles from the Spanish border. Spanish consulates in France, occupied by Spanish Maquis, would be returned to Franco's consuls. There were reports that France and Spain would resume diplomatic relations...
Spaniards in France meanwhile laid plans for an anti-Falangist meeting in Toulouse, 60 miles from the Spanish frontier. Purpose: to decide upon "the best methods" of overthrowing the Franco Government...
...liquidation of the center of the fascist infection in Spain [is necessary] for the future security of Europe. . . . As he loses his main support-Hitlerite Germany-Franco looks to other forces for aid. One of his best allies is the Vatican. Pope Pius XII could be called Franco's 'godfather...