Obvious Game

To show that he is no longer the Falangist flunkey of the Axis, fat Francisco Franco last week:

P: Severed relations with Japan, because Jap soldiers had "brutally mistreated" 172 Spanish nationals in Manila.

P: Prepared to check on all Germans in Spain, to determine whether they were on the Allies' war-criminals list.

P: Granted amnesty to Spanish political exiles and invited them to come home (but reserved the right to reject individual re-entries).

Nobody was impressed. Exiled Socialist Indalecio Prieto, last Republican War Minister, who is now in Washington working for a Republican comeback, spoke for the skeptics: "An obvious act of cynical shame. . . . No one can get away with such a double-faced game. Franco will be through the day Germany is defeated."

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