Word: francos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon Johnson has not seen the French President since John Kennedy's funeral. Robert Kennedy's visit, of course, had no visibly warming effect on Franco-American relations. Though France's main contribution to the war so far has been to urge unilateral U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam, the New York Senator predicted: "France and General de Gaulle are going to play an important role in any successful effort we undertake to find a solution to the trouble in Viet...
...sense, General Francisco Franco has brought the trouble on himself by seeking in recent months to relax the tight rein that his regime had for decades imposed on Spain. Franco recently promulgated a new constitution that will ultimately bring the country at least a semblance of parliamentary democracy, also decreed that strikes were no longer illegal provided that they were called exclusively for economic reasons. Taking him at his word, Spanish workers have struck a number of times for higher wages to offset Spain's rising cost of living. But politics also clearly played a role in last week...
Some Spaniards fear that last week's disturbances may cause Franco to reverse his liberal trend and reimpose totalitarian controls. Now that Spaniards have had a taste of the new liberalism, however, any attempts to reassert the old autocratic rule might only provoke even greater violence among students and workers. That would wipe out Franco's plan to guide Spain into a new era of freedom before his death, and with it his hope that history will judge him as a ruler who knew when to innovate rather than to dictate...
...Guerre Est Finie. At the Spanish border a car is checked by the guards, then sent on its way. Unknown to the police, it carries a pair of Red agents bent on toppling the Franco regime. Still another peek into the spyglass...
...official French entry at last May's Cannes Festival, La Guerre was withdrawn from competition under pressure from Spain. It is easy to see why: the villain of the piece is all too clearly the Franco government. Yet as Jorge Semprun's script makes clear, the revolutionists are not precisely heroes either. In the film's most insightful scene, Diego confronts a group of young incendiaries hell-bent on burning Spain to the ground. Both sides are presented as helpless amputees of history; the old rebel has a past but no future, the terrorists a future...