Most countries wait until after their wars are over to show off their battlefields. Last week, however, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's newly opened Tourist Office announced that, beginning July 1, it would conduct tours into what was a year ago a bloody battlefield, is now a peaceful, although still partially ruined, countryside.
Chief announced aim of the Franco Tourist Office was to demonstrate that back of the front all is normal in Rightist Spain. Unannounced aim: to get needed foreign exchange for Rightist Spain's war. Tour No. 1 will run from burned Irun, on...
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