Anglo-American Relations and the Franco Question, 1945-1955 [Hardcover]

This book examines how British and American governments grappled with the question of intervention or non-intervention in a pariah regime--Francoist Spain. Edwards details the clash between the emerging dual system of the United Nations and the older system of balance of power.

...Edwards...advance[s] our comprehension of this diplomatic episode from the early Cold War. Perhaps the most notable of her contributions is to account for the reluctance of senior Western policy makers to acknowledge the inevitability of strategic association with Franco. --American HistoricalReview