Word: francos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Burgos and elected him Chief of Government of Nationalist Spain. Since then, the world and its leaders* have changed many times. The Great Depression was followed by world war, which was followed by agonies of reconstruction and the cold war; nations were born, others swallowed up. But Francisco Franco Bahamonde, 68, was still Caudillo of Spain-and for all anyone could tell, he might still be in 25 more years...
...Franco last week returned to Burgos, a grey and Gothic city festooned with flags, flowers and triumphal arches. With him went almost everyone of importance in Spain: Cabinet ministers in frock coats, generals and admirals weighted down with medals, Falangists in blue shirts and white coats, and tens of thousands of Castilian peasants, stiffly dressed in their Sunday best. After High Mass and Te Deum in the 13th century cathedral, Dictator Franco went to the Plaza Mayor and told the crowd, in his reedy monotone, that he had defeated Communism and given his countrymen more than two decades of peace...
...signs proclaiming, "Another Border But Still Europe." And some 1,150 schoolchildren from a dozen nations were enrolled in Brussels' Common Market European high school-multilingual, intercultural, stocked with history texts that are no longer patriotic tracts but tell both sides of such old, bitter feuds as the Franco-Prussian...
...acceptable to France, thrice attacked by German armies in the last hundred years? It was Jean Monnet, then directing France's postwar economic recovery, who found the answer: to pool the coal and steel resources of France and Germany-the Ruhr, the Saar, Lorraine, over which so many Franco-German conflicts had erupted-under a supranational authority...
...suggested one of the few impractical schemes of his career: the immediate unification of France and Great Britain. Monnet put it to De Gaulle, who agreed it was worth the gamble. Both men went to Churchill, and the result was Churchill's historic but futile "declaration of Franco-British Union." Monnet then flew to Bordeaux in a big Sunderland Flying-boat to try to evacuate the whole French Cabinet. The Cabinet refused to budge, for fear of being labeled cowardly émigrés. A disappointed Monnet returned to London with the flying-boat full of refugee families...