The Spanish autocrat was a cruel man. But his country was not worse off for having him as its leader.

The left lauded Nov. 20, when Francisco Franco was declared dead after his family removed life support, as a bright day for ...

I put that question to Stanley G. Payne, 91, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin. “Oh, 4 or 5,” he says. “Maybe 4 rather than 5. As a dictator he had many virtues in the ...

"There never has been anti-Semitism in Spain," Generalissimo Francisco Franco dictator of Spain told David Lawrence editor of the U.S. News and World Report who publishes a copyrighted interview with ...

With Generalissimo Francisco Franco never more certain of ultimate victory, England and France made ungainly haste to hitch a free ride on his chariot. Both France and England stroked the little ...

Academic history denies that Franco’s fascism, but the violence and antisemitism of his war in, and then rule over, Spain ...

Spain’s civil war seemed to hinge last week upon profound deliberations by Adolf Hitler in his Bavarian retreat and on secret Anglo-French moves to sway Berlin. The German envoy accredited to the ...

Madrid, Spain, Oct. 2, 1970: President Nixon and Spanish leader Generalissimo Francisco Franco are accompanied by Franco’s mounted escort as they ride from Madrid’s Barajas Airport to Moncloa Palace.

The Israel-Arab dispute and the Middle East security situation were discussed by Generalissimo Franco and King Feisal of Iraq at a meeting in Madrid yesterday, the Times of London reported today from ...