Word: francos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delicate job of Ambassador to Europe's newest Dictator Francisco Franco of Spain, the President named Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, *63, of Richmond, Va., urbane careerman whose first consulate 29 years ago was in Zanzibar, and who since 1933 has been trying, as Ambassador, to keep Argentina friendly despite a U. S. embargo on Argentine beef...
...victory parade in Madrid, supposed officially to end the civil war, was first scheduled for the week after Madrid's surrender on March 29. It was then postponed to May 2, later, to May 15. Last week Generalissimo Francisco Franco, in Malaga, dropped a hint that he could not yet consider the war over. About the same time there came a report from Rome that the Madrid march would now take place...
...glorious Spanish campaigns, surely could not be expected to depart before they had marched down Madrid's Gran Via and Calle de Alcalá, along with 500,000 Spaniards, in a final salute to El Caudillo. And Italy could surely not be held responsible for Dictator Franco's delays. Last week the British and French began to suspect that Il Duce and El Caudillo were giving them the runaround, that Italian soldiers might remain in Spain just as long as Dictator Mussolini wants them there and Dictator Franco will have them...
...Sebastian Marshal Petain was kept in the diplomatic doghouse for eight days before being officially received by the Franco Government. The price of reception, moreover, the old Marshal was told, was the return of the interned Republican fleet from Bizerte, Tunisia, the French protectorate, where it had fled in the closing days of the war. On this point the French gave in and General Franco's sailors sailed away with the fleet without bothering to pay even port charges...
...Principal opposition came from Communists and Socialists, who scattered their votes-in order to express their lively joy in the game of politics-among various minor candidates and even among some who were not candidates at all, such as ancient (82) Marshal Philippe Petain, recently appointed French Ambassador to Franco Spain (19 votes...