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From Franco to freedom: reflections on getting reacquainted with Spain.(Europe)
IN THIS YEAR'S northern spring, I indulged myself in the pleasure of returning for a while to Spain, where I had squandered many marvellous months of my youth in the early 1960s. That was when Franco Spain had emerged from the traumas of the Civil War (1936-39), the isolation during the Second World War and its aftermath, and fifteen years of great penury. As I was studying Spanish at university, I had all the excuses I needed to run off regularly to a country that fascinated me.
With hindsight, I know that I discovered Spain during a new, exhilarating beginning when Spaniards tasted a new freedom and prosperity. The old Falangist leadership--including the ...
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