It's a love beat.....it's a heart beat.......and when we meet....
It's a love beat.....it's a heart beat.......and when we meet....
Hitler supposedly told an aide that he would rather have his teeth pulled out than have another meeting like the one he had just had with Franco. If that isn't a character recommendation, I don't know what is.
Yes, and they did it with the complicity of the New York Times, the Wash. Post, NBC and ABC. Last, and by no means least, is CBS and the most trusted commie in America, "Uncle Walter".
General Francisco Franco of Spain was another leader whose ideological sympathies with National Socialism led him to the brink of a close alliance with the Reich. Like Salazar, however, he refrained from completely crossing that line. In March 1939, Spain concluded the Anti-Comintern Pact with Nazi Germany (it augmented the secret treaties for diplomatic and economic cooperation of March and July 1937). And as of June 13, 1940, Franco moved Spain from neutrality to nonbelligerency, which reflected unambiguous sympathy for the Axis . . .With respect to immigration and transmigration policies, the Spanish were similar to other neutrals: there was a general reluctance to accommodate refugees. Requirements for visas were both stringent and variable, and the Spanish bureaucracy frequently created nightmarish situations for those trying to flee the Nazis. . .
One historian has stated that 28,000 fugitives were smuggled across the French-Spanish border during the war, including 20,000 Frenchmen (many of whom later fought for De Gaulle's Free French forces28). The Spanish, then, were much like the Swiss when it came to assisting refugees: while they attempted to discourage those seeking asylum, in the end they did save a number of lives. . .
In return for German arms, Franco eventually provided valuable mineral resources and other raw materials to the Reich. By the end of the Spanish Civil War and the onset of World War II, Franco had incurred significant debts to the Germans and this increased Hitler's leverage over the Generalissimo. On December 22, 1939, Spain and Germany signed a treaty in which Franco "agreed to reserve the greater part of [his nation's] exports for Germany, in particular iron ore, zinc, lead, mercury, wolfram, wool, and hides."30 Spain, then, contributed significantly to the German war effort, at least up to the autumn of 1942 . . .
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The real truth is that the ball never hit the turf or Tatum.
Perhaps that should read: The New York Times and the rest of the liberal U.S. media sure did a number on old Franco. And they made the Communist Lincoln Brigade look like a bunch of heroes.
Which could have never been accomplished without their able abettors in the United States press.Thanks for the thread.