Antonio Garrigues Díaz-Cañabate’s embassy in Washington (1962-1964): did his diplomacy mark the opening up of Spain?
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Spain, United States, international relations, aperturismo political evolutionism), Julián Grimau, ‘The Munich Collusion’.Abstract
In 1962 Antonio Garrigues Díaz-Cañabate, a prestigious Spanish lawyer, was appointed as ambassador to the United States. His primary task was to renegotiate 1953 bilateral agreements, which were valid for ten years. In this paper, the most directly related aspects to that very important negotiation have been leaving aside in order focus on the intense diplomatic activity deployed by Garrigues to improve the perception of the Franco dictatorship that existed in the United States. The Garrigues’ personality was liberal but yet inside the Francoist consensus and he wished to convey the American society a message that draws the regime as the appropriate Spanish formula of evolution towards a future system that should be similar to those the Western countries. Garrigues was part thus of the aperturista (political evolutionist) wing of the regime. The 1960s were years of aperturismo, but of unseasonable rigidities and exasperating slowness as well.Downloads
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