Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though dictator-ruled Portugal is a member of NATO, dictator-ruled Spain is not. One reason is the long-standing hostility between France and Franco's Madrid. During the Spanish Civil War, France took in 500,000 Republican refugees and even let them set up a government in exile. French Socialists in particular, recalling with distaste Franco's wartime friendship with Hitler and Mussolini, have always resisted friendly relations with Franco...
Last week, in the odd way that news is made these days in France, the major French news agency said that France would "strongly support" Spain for membership in NATO, though it would not necessarily nominate it. The dispatch came as something of a surprise to the Quai d'Orsay, where only Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville knew about...
...behind the idea was none other than President Charles de Gaulle himself. Other NATO powers-notably Norway, Denmark and Britain-are still firmly opposed to Spanish membership. Regarding Franco's forces as ill-equipped, intended primarily for internal security and not much good anyway, they think that Spain's geographical usefulness is already taken care of by U.S. bases in Spain...
Clements is now booked well ahead in provincial arenas, hopes to return to Spain and fight as a full-fledged matador by next Easter. Sidney Franklin is convinced that his young charge is going to be great. Says he: "Nobody in Mexico has his style and manner in killing. And only one-Antonio Ordóñez-can match him in Spain...
...that innocent year, war was something tiresome that men did. She wrote merrily: "England picked up France, Germany picked up Italy. Then Italy's Nanny said she had fallen down and grazed her knee, running, and mustn't play. England picked up Turkey, Germany picked up Spain, but Spain's Nanny said she had internal troubles and must sit this one out. England looked towards the Oslo group, but they had never played before, except little Belgium, who had hated it, and the others felt shy. The party looked like being a flop, and everybody was becoming...