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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (594)	10/20/1999 7:10:00 AM
From: MNI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

Charley, what did Ernesto Cardenal think of Franco's value to Catholics? Your appreciation of Franco's value to the Church rests of course on the assumption that only Franco was willing and able to protect priests, nuns, laymen, culture, buildings and assets of the Catholic church in Spain. However, you run into the double dilemma that Franco in principle could have acted to stabilise Spain and procure for security in coalition with democratic socialist forces (instead of starting a civil war), and that you have to answer the question whether you appreciate German interference with Spanish matters as a part of protecting the Catholic church of Spain (surely not their motive, or if so, only to instrumentalize them). So you miss the point, as long as you play on 'Yes, Franco was a dictator, but he was needed here and well-conducted' - being dictatorial, utilizing a Civil war and foreign powers is integral part of this dictator, and cannot be divided from any other piece of his conduct, to isolate the pros. Being dictatorial in the above-defined sense constitutes that he can be in the best case the lesser of two evils (and mostly in history there are more than two alternatives), not a hero among villains. Definitely NO to a list entry. Regards MNI. PS: Of, course, something Freudian going on in the picture may be exactly where the art lies. It brings me to some point you may be interested in: Cindy Sherman has been awarded the Emperor's Ring of Goslar (annual international art prize) last week. (Emperor is 'Charlemagne' in the case of Goslar; a big part of his might came from his control over the Rammelsberg gold mine of Goslar).