Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The lights were burning late in El Pardo, the somber palace on the outskirts of Madrid. As he waited in the cold, cavernous halls hung with tapestries of medieval Spain, Generalissimo Francisco Franco might well have wondered if the lights of his destiny were also burning late. It was going...
Democratic Blowdowns. The war years changed the political climate. Democratic gusts blew down the Ubico dictatorship in Guatemala, today whistle ominously through the pinetops of Carías' Honduras. In the roaring times when it was never clear which went first, the U.S. flag or the U.S. dollar, to...
Democracy's Dilemma. The evidence was strong but it merely served to prove what everybody knew: that Franco was an Axis stooge. Spaniards, sick of civil war, were not going to rise against him because of the U.S. disclosures. The question was: what were the Allied governments going to...
Died. León Cortés Castro, 63, fascist-minded President of Costa Rica from 1936-40; of a heart attack; in Santa Ana, Costa Rica.
Died. Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin (pronounced pot-yom-kin), 68, former U.S.S.R. Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs, whose tactful, pactful diplomacy was largely responsible for treaties with Italy (1933) and France (1935); after long illness; in Moscow. A revolution-minded mathematics teacher in Tsarist days, amiable polyglot (septilingual) Potemkin championed collective...