Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Next? On paper, Washington's indictment of Franco as the nonbelligerent lackey of Hitler and Mussolini was damning and determined. The Allied manifesto addressed to "leading" Spaniards was daring, high-principled and humane. But, as practical measures, what did they amount to? Would huffing & puffing blow Franco down? Would the brave words be buttressed by bold diplomacy? If so, would there be repercussions that might not only drive the Generalissimo from power but also upset still further the uneasy balance of Europe...
This was Russia's opportunity to try putting the Anglo-Americans across a propaganda barrel-the kind Russia had endured over Iran. This was also Franco's opportunity-as it had been the opportunity of Hitler. For all he was worth, the wily Gallegan dictator played Russia against Britain...
...final plunge, he pleaded, Spain was too poor and unprepared. Germany must first send more wheat to feed the hungry Spaniards and guns to reduce Gibraltar. When the Axis crashed, he cleared from his desk in El Prado the autographed portraits of Hitler and Mussolini. He orated: "Falangism is not fascism . . . [but] a special mode of life...
...Hitler grumbled to the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, that the Spanish terms were high, and that whenever during the Civil War he asked for repayment from the Spaniards for his help they promptly transferred the conversation to high, idealistic grounds. He growled: "As a German one feels toward the Spanish almost like a Jew who wants to make business out of the holiest possessions of mankind...
...Alois Hitler, half-brother of Adolf, was getting pretty tired of it all: U.S. newsmen in Germany were still getting in his hair. For the umpteenth time he recited his grubby life story for them, and then offered a self-portrait. Said he: "I am a tired old man who is fed up with being questioned about Hitler...