Word: valino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suddenly, Spain began to talk more kindly of cooperation with France. With a faintly patronizing air, French Resident General André Louis Dubois drove over to the Spanish zone for a "courtesy" call on his Spanish counterpart, Lieut. General Rafael Garcia Valino. Dubois' main concern was to get Spanish cooperation in halting the Rif raids across the border. Garcia Valino seized the opportunity to announce Spain would introduce political reforms to institute "parallel evolution" in its zone. At week's end, Franco conferred long and late with his Cabinet, authorized a guarded statement promising that Spain would "follow...
Under the approving eye of Franco's High Commissioner Rafael Garcia Valifio, 430 tribal leaders - pashas, caids and ule-mas - signed and proclaimed a fiery petition pledging "unconditional allegiance" to Spanish policy, denouncing France and soliciting Franco's help in seceding from French Morocco. Garcia Valino thereupon rose and blandly castigated French "colonialism." and pledged his and Franco's weight to the Moroccan cause...
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