| Popis: |
The German surrender of May 1945 left the Franco regime exposed and all sectors of the Spanish anti-Franco opposition expecting the victorious Allies to move swiftly against ‘fascist’ Spain. Yet, republicans and anti-Franco monarchists were apprehensive over the eventual choice of regime to succeed Franco’s. Each of the rival camps suspected the other of trying to steal a march on it and so both, in 1945, would take steps to ingratiate themselves with the Allies. In exile, the republicans revived the institutions of the Spanish Second Republic and the monarchists distanced themselves from the Franco regime. Inside Spain, the search for common ground between republicans and monarchists resumed. In contrast, the British government, which had no intention of forcibly removing Franco, kept to its attentiste policy despite the incipient internationalisation of the ‘Spanish problem’. |
