{"id":52,"date":"2009-11-25T19:17:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T19:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/institutocervanteslondon.wordpress.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2009-11-25T19:17:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T19:17:11","slug":"spies-like-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/2009\/11\/25\/spies-like-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Spies like dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left:20px;margin-right:20px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimmy-burns.com\/assets\/images\/books\/large\/papa_spy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"240\" \/>EVER wondered why Spain remained neutral in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/history\/worldwars\/wwtwo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Second World War<\/a>? After all,<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hitler\" target=\"_blank\">Hitler<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benito_Mussolini\" target=\"_blank\">Mussolini<\/a> had given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historylearningsite.co.uk\/general_francisco_franco.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Franco<\/a> ample support during the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historylearningsite.co.uk\/spanish_civil_war.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish Civil War<\/a><strong>,<\/strong> and might have expected the Caudillo to return the favour by joining with the Axis powers.<\/p>\n<p>But Franco declined to get involved, despite the Nazis\u2019 best efforts to persuade him otherwise \u2013 and it\u2019s just as well that he did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod knows what would have happened if the Axis powers had taken control of Spain,\u201d the journalist and author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmy-burns.com\/about.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Burns <\/a>told an audience at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londres.cervantes.es\/en\/default.shtm\" target=\"_blank\">Instituto Cervantes<\/a> last month. \u201cIt would probably have changed the entire course of World War II.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Spies like dad\" href=\"http:\/\/londonspanish.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/13\/29\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EVER wondered why Spain remained neutral in the Second World War? After all, Hitler and Mussolini had given Franco ample support during the Spanish Civil War, and might have expected the Caudillo to return the favour by joining with the Axis powers. But Franco declined to get involved, despite the Nazis\u2019 best efforts to persuade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,10],"tags":[1109,127,176],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}