Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republic had been supplied enough arms, Mussolini and Hitler, who were supporting the Fascist forces in Spain, would have suffered their first defeat. Gates contended that Hitler's victory in Spain strengthened him for his advance against the West...
World War II could have been avoided if the Western democracies had sold arms to Spain in the Spanish Civil War, John Gates, an officer of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and a former Communist, said last night at the Kirkland House Forum...
Subsequent United States' support of the Franco regime was attacked by Allen Guttmann of Amherst College. "When Dwight D. Eisenhower went to Madrid and shook hands with Franco--the first head of state to do so since Hitler--I felt there was something wrong. When we put bases in Spain, I felt ashamed to be an American...
Gates added that "I think Franco's going to be overthrown and I think democracy will come back into power in Spain. I hope we in America will help democracy return to Spain...
...marble and supports it by filling every cranny. For the sea voyage, the Vatican took out $6 million in humpty-bumpty insurance, plus another $20 million for its stay at the fair, just about enough to pay for the Vatican's embarrassment if the sculpture broke. In Spain, squabbling continued over the proposed loan to the fair of El Greco's 15-ft. by 24-ft. The Burial of Count Orgaz, while workmen waited to peel it from a wall in Toledo's Santo Tome Church...