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Conditioned by their Victorian antecedents, the British business class had no attachment to either war or idealism. Both were bad for trade. Accustomed to social continuity at home, they were repelled by disintegration abroad. From their experiences, acquired to some degree through their own imposition of order on foreigners, they recognized the existence of stability to be a prerequisite for all profitable activity and progress. Therefore, their tendency to favour authoritarianism was strong and led them to favour Franco.
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© 1962 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Kleine-Ahlbrandt, W.L. (1962). Struggle for Spanish Recources. In: The Policy of Simmering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1009-7_7
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