Churchill and Spain: The Survival of the Franco Regime, 1940-1945 (Routledge Canada Blanch Studies in Contemporary Spain)

✍ Scribed by Richard Wigg

Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 220
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This thoroughly researched, highly perceptive and utterly gripping study deals with an important aspect of Spanish and British history - Churchill's policy of appeasement toward the Franco regime in Spain. Wigg demonstrates that the tolerance shown toward Spain's wartime trading permitted the rebuilding of Spanish gold reserves which helped Franco survive his (and Spain's) international ostracism between 1945 and 1950.This important book will interest scholars with an interest in contemporary European political history as well as those with a general interest in Spanish history.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Prologue......Page 10
1 1940: In the hour of need......Page 13
2 1941: A balancing country......Page 34
3 1942: Ambiguous assurances......Page 54
4 1943 (January–October): Franco toughs it out......Page 74
5 1943 (November–December): The wolfram war......Page 108
6 1944 (January–September): Churchill intervenes I......Page 123
7 1944 (October–December): Churchill intervenes II......Page 152
8 1945 (January–July): A wringing of hands......Page 177
Epilogue: Hoare versus Churchill over Spain......Page 196
Notes......Page 201
Bibliography......Page 215
Index......Page 218

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