"It has thicker skin than a rhinoceros."
— Francisco Franco

January 1, 1970

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(At the beginning of the Second World War) Confidential note from Spanish diplomacy of the comment that a senior officer of Allied diplomacy (it is said that it is specifically British) would have made about Franco and specifically the maintenance of strict neutrality on the Western Front, even a supposed and veiled logistical support and bilateral cooperation between the Spanish State and the secret treaties of Friendship and anti-communist cooperation with the Axis Powers; including the disagr