"I would rather have three or four teeth extracted than go through that again."
Hitler speaking after his meeting with Franco at Irun in 1940 when the Generalissimo turned down all entreaties to join World War Two - in spite of all the help he had happily accepted from Hitler in the Spanish Civil War.
Franco was an ultra-conservative and he has quite mistakenly been labelled as a fascist. Furthermore, he had no imperialistic ambitions.
