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Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco, international pariah, seemed to be making progress toward getting back into the community of western nations. In the U.S. Senate last week, several members let it be known that they were ready to let bygones be bygones. Nevada's Democrat Pat McCarran started it by asking: Why should the U.S. not give Dictator Franco the same recognition it gives Dictator Stalin...
...What set McCarran off was a U.N. debate over restoring full diplomatic recognition to Spain. The Soviet bloc wanted the two-year-old ban continued; most of the Latin Americans wanted it lifted, and so did some U.S. delegates. But Delegates Eleanor Roosevelt and John Foster Dulles were for continuing the ban. Result: the split U.S. delegation was told to abstain from voting...
...McCarran this artful dodge seemed just another way of keeping Franco in the doghouse. He was convinced that Franco had never been as black as he had been painted, anyhow. "How can we do better than to make an ally of a country which has carried the war against communism for the past quarter of a century?" he asked. Besides, suggested McCarran, getting down to business, the U.S. might be able to sell Spain some surplus cotton...
...plant's space is already rented by 38 lessees, chiefly for storage. Nevada thinks the plant could provide the foundation for big scale electro-chemical and electro-metallurgical manufacturing, e.g,, anything from dynamite to paint. At week's end, Nevada's Senator Patrick A. McCarran was trying to interest Du Pont and Alcoa...
...Senator McCarran (D-Nov.), addressing the Senato, raised the question whether alarums are not out of order...