Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voted for a United Nations resolution calling upon U.N. members to withdraw ambassadors from Madrid as evidence of disgust with the Franco dictatorship. Since then the U.S. Embassy has been manned by a career charge d'affaires whose attitude of official coolness was frequently compromised by junketing U.S. Congressmen and businessmen streaming through Madrid to shake hands with General Franco...
...difficult to envisage Spain as a full member of the free Western community without substantial advances in such directions as increased civil liberties, and as religious freedom and the freedom to exercise the elementary rights of organized labor," said he. (This part of his letter did not appear in Madrid newspapers...
Last Thursday Secretary of State Acheson talked about Spain. Acheson said that the U.S. was ready to send an ambassador to Madrid if the UN approved; that we had no objection to loaning Franco money for "justifiable" projects...
Dolores Ibarruri, called "La Pasionaria," born the daughter of a coalminer, worked as a washerwoman. She won her nickname for her fiery speeches during Spain's civil war (sample: "Women of Madrid! Do not hinder your husbands from going to war. It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a miserable coward"). She is now secretary general of what's left of the Spanish Communist Party...