SPAIN: Trouble

"Don't look now, Francisco," enemies of Generalissimo Franco chuckled last week, "but there's a big Bear behind you."

From Moscow's Red Star had come an authoritative growl: "Generalissimo Francisco Franco's regime is an international problem that must be dealt with." Dictator Franco "and his German masters must understand that, having finished with the Germans, the United Nations will solve the Spanish problem also."

Almost as disturbing to Spain's pudgy dictator were two lines in the London Daily Express, organ of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's great friend (and Lord Privy Seal) Lord Beaverbrook: "If Britain is wise she will allow the Spanish...

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