Franco (Text Only) by Paul Preston

Author:Paul Preston
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780007404230
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2013-07-14T04:17:46+00:00

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* Moltke was to die in post from an acute appendicitis on 22 March 1943.

† Unaware of these dealings, the ever naïve Hayes wrote confidently to the State Department that ‘the improvement in Spain’s relations with the United Nations has been to the detriment of its relations with the Axis’ – FRUS 1943 (Washington, 1964) II, pp. 595–7.

* It declared simply that, in return for arms, war equipment of modern quality and in sufficient quantity, Spain would resist ‘every entry by Anglo-American forces upon the Iberian Peninsula or upon Spanish territory outside of the Peninsula, that means, therefore, in the Mediterranean Sea, in the Atlantic and in Africa as well as in the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco, and to ward off such an entry with all means at its disposal’.

* In private, Franco was contemptuous of the Cortes, inadvertently recognizing that it was merely a carefully constructed facade to cover his personal dictatorship. On one occasion in the early 1950s when his liberal Catholic Minister, Joaquin Ruiz Gimeñez, made some remark which suggested that he took seriously the farce of the Cortes, the Caudillo impatiently snapped ‘and who do the Cortes represent?’ – José María de Areilza, Diario de un ministro de la monarquía (Barcelona, 1977) pp. 73–6. On another, when one of his generals voted against a law in the Cortes, Franco was outraged, commenting ‘if he doesn’t like the project, he may abstain but never vote against since he owes his seat to me by direct nomination’ – Franco Salgado-Araujo, Mis conversaciones, p. 214.

* The military regions into which Spain was divided.

* About £360,000 at 1993 prices.

* On 1 October 1943, ‘Día del Caudillo’, Arriba hailed the seventh anniversary of his ‘exaltation to the almost divine function of Governor’ and praised his astonishing achievements in inspiring Spanish art, literature, music and architecture.

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