A Spanish Disquisition

THE subjective Geiger counter registers a lessening of anti-American sentiment, if only by comparison with France and Germany and the green wastes of Scandinavia.

Thanks in part to the conservative government of President José Maria Aznar, which five years ago succeeded the dreary socialism of Felipe González. Another leavening influence may be the presentiment among some Spaniards that the future of the peninsula rests with the United States and an imaginative expansion of NAFTA across the seas to the British Isles and Iberia. Yes, Spain and perfidious Albion, longtime rival powers, may be destined to become bosom trading pals. Should this happen, it will be thanks to the wisdom and prescience of Francisco Franco, an ogre to politically correct Spaniards, much as McCarthy is to the liberally correct in America.

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THE subjective Geiger counter registers a lessening of anti-American sentiment, if only by comparison with France and Germany and the green wastes of Scandinavia.

Thanks in part to the conservative government of President José Maria Aznar, which five years ago succeeded the dreary socialism of Felipe González. Another leavening influence may be the presentiment among some Spaniards that the future of the peninsula rests with the United States and an imaginative expansion of NAFTA across the seas to the British Isles and Iberia. Yes, Spain and perfidious Albion, longtime rival powers, may be destined to become bosom trading pals. Should this happen, it will be thanks to the wisdom and prescience of Francisco Franco, an ogre to politically correct Spaniards, much as McCarthy is to the liberally correct in America.