Quotes About Franco

In spite of Franco's close political identification with the Nazi new order in Europe, he did not align Spain militarily with the German–Italian Axis and thus never directly threatened Allied imperial interests.

the Franco regime's highly tendentious view of the civil war as a war of liberation against those without ethics or value – a mythology on which Franco never ceased to stake his legitimacy.

indeed the idea of a "judeo-masonic-bolshevik" conspiracy against "eternal Christian Spain" was one of the Franco regime's founding myths.22

I still work really hard, but I like to think I'm a little smarter about at least the type of movie I'm getting into.

Remember the war against Franco?That's the kind where each of us belongs.Though he may have won all the battles,We had all the good songs.

A estas alturas los tres mercenarios de la Legión Extranjera ya me tienen agarrado de las verijas. —¿Cuáles mercenarios? —pregunta la Hermana. —El alemán Alzheimer, el inglés míster Parkinson y el italiano Franco. —¿Qué Franco? —se sorprende el Tira.

I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.

Are you a Bolshevik?' 'More an anarchist, I like to think. Anyway, I'm quite determined to bring down the settled order of British Society. Once I've dealt with Franco and Hitler that is.' She stood. 'Perhaps we'd better go in and have tea before you start the revolution.' Miller clambered to his feet. 'Ah, in this country even the revolution stops for tea,' he said.

If Franco had joined the war, the inevitable fall of Gibraltar would have doomed Malta. It would have been much harder—perhaps impossible—for the British to hold the Middle East.