Archive Report
Archive Report
Division on Policy Toward Fascist Spain
Recent advocacy by sen. Taft (R., Ohio), chairman of the Senate's Republican Policy Committee, of friendlier relations with Spain added an influential recruit to the group pressing for revision of American policy toward the Franco regime and at the same time emphasized the cleavage between Congress and the administration on the Spanish question. Although Taft said, Sept. 25, that he was not proposing military aid for Franco, he contended that there was “great strategic value in having the friendship of Spain.” Disclosure that Russia had achieved the manufacture of an atomic bomb was expected to increase the demand in Congress that Spain be brought into the defense planning of the western nations.
Chairman McCarran (D., Nev.) of the Senate Judiciary ...