Word: francos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chambers pleaded for action to influence Congress to lift the embargo on Spain contending that there was still time enough to aid the Loyalists in beating Franco. He reported that he had delivered the Harvard Petitions to lift the embargo to the White House...
...think that the Loyalist government is completely unbiased in its estimate of the outcome of the struggle. That government and those who support it may feel that it is better to die fighting in the defence of their cause than to submit tamely to the possible oppressions of General Franco's government. Though that attitude is a brave one, it would be neither sensible nor even praiseworthy...
...matter how severe may be the rigors of Franco's regime, I can hardly see the point of aggravating such rigors by prolonging a war which, in the opinion of most, has already been lost . . . Therefore, I oppose a petition of which the utility is extremely problematical and the immediate results unquestionably undesirable. Alan. J. Ansen...
...Hitler-Franco treaty appeared to put the Franco imprimatur upon the works of Alfred Rosenberg, Germany's pagan, anti-Christian ideologist, and upon the Völkischer Beobachter, which has sounded the Nazi tocsin against Catholicism "until the point of total annihilation." If enforced, the treaty would suppress in Spain the Vatican's Osservatore Romano, which has called Hitler "anti-Christ," the Pope's encyclical With Burning Sorrow, which denounced Nazi racialist principles. In short, the terms of the treaty were directly at variance with a Franco pledge, cited last week by Jesuit America, that...
Editor's note: The Crimson suggested that a more constructive line would be agitation for general alteration of the Neutrality Act, since Washington circles are already thinking in terms of a Franco victory; and since preparation for the future is more important than trying to remedy what is past...