Description: This book is a gripping story about the developments of US Cold War policy and the survival of the Franco dictatorship. Initially, the US position towards the Franco dictatorship was hostile, but a more cynical approach was adopted by the Republican administration under Eisenhower. This led to the signing in 1953 of the military and economic agreements which marked the welcoming of Franco into the international community. Ever since 1953, large sections of the Spanish political establishment and the left-wing opposition have argued that Franco bought these agreements at the test of national sovereignty. This book is the first account in any language of diplomatic bluff and counterbluff which lay behind the ultimate compromise.

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