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Francisco Franco

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Just like any honest man, I am against Franco and Fascism in Spain.
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Ernest Hemingway, quoted in Writers Take Sides : Letters About the War in Spain from 418 American Authors (1938) by the American Writers League, which asked various authors: "Are you for or are you against Franco and fascism?".

 
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