ABSTRACT
After his victory in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), General Francisco Franco isolated Spain culturally, politically and economically from the rest of the world. His administration accordingly exercized strict control over the translation of foreign cultural material. Only in the 1950s, after more than ten years of poverty and misery, was he forced to relax his repressive, autocratic rule (Tusell 1988: 251-62; García Delgado 2000: 120); economic modernization did not properly begin until 1957-59, and was guided mainly by Opus Dei-affiliated capitalists (Moradiellos 2000: 26-7). From the 1950s onwards, Franco made efforts to regain international standing by manoeuvring his country into global political organizations, such as the United Nations, to which Spain was admitted in 1955.
