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...plump little Caudillo has recently had an extremely cold shoulder from all the major Allies. The Tangier conference door was slammed in his face (TIME, Sept. 3). Plagued by drought and lack of food (Spain needs nearly 2,000,000 tons of imported wheat), the Spanish people grow constantly more dispirited. As a U.P. dispatch from San Sebastian in the Basque country delicately put it: "Demonstrations of affection for Spain's leader have been comparatively limited in number and degree of warmth...
Russians rated Francisco Franco's political life expectancy at not more than six months. That, explained a Soviet spokes man, was why the Paris conference on Tangier ended last week with agreement to meet again next February - with Spain participating. Meanwhile, strategic Tan gier will revert to the international control prevailing before Franco's Moorish troops seized...
...Three pressure on Franco began when Russia insisted on a place at the Tangier conference, but refused to sit down with representatives of Fascist Spain. Spain was excluded. Next came the Russian-initiated Big Three agreement at Potsdam barring Franco's Government from the United Nations organization. After that...
Franco himself seemed to be seeking a way of placating Britain and the U.S. He hoped a restoration of Spanish monarchy might be enough. Meanwhile the Russians, by taking a leading part in the conference on Tangier, had (for the first time since the Revolution) achieved diplomatic recognition that Russia's influence reached all the way to the Atlantic...
Since 1928 Tangier has been internationalized and demilitarized under the joint tutelage of Britain, France, Spain and Italy, but since the fall of France in 1940 the say of the British and French has been as nominal as that of the Sultan. The Spanish ousted Tangier's French Administrator and the Sultan's Mendonb (representative), installed their own military governor, seized customs and communications, encouraged anti-Allied demonstrations, and winked at Axis espionage...