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CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: HEAD OFFICE

1983-0236

Video

1975-11-20

1975-11-20

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

anchor, Lloyd Robertson; narrator, George Finstad

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

First part of a news special about the death of Francisco Franco, including archival footage. It covers: Franco's victory in the Spanish civil war; his outrage when Stalin and Hitler signed a pact; his refusal to back the Nazis despite pressure; the occupation of Gibraltor; his meeting with Hitler on the French border; the defeat of the fascist powers in the Second World War; the meeting of the Allies in Potsdam; the creation of the United Nations, which ostracized his regime; the recall of most ambassadors from Spain; the UN's rescinding of this position circa 1950; and the establishment of two American airbases in Spain by 1953. The tape ends during commentary about Spain's turning into a defacto western ally by the 1950s. <22mn>

English

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V1 9506-0004

GAD 0FD547

with permission of CBC and other broadcasters