ould benefit from the Marshall Aid program, and when the
             North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded in 1949, Spain was
             excluded. The country had recluse status.
             In the late 1940s, the Cold War was fully-fledged and the United States
             foreign office saw Spain as a potential ally in the struggle with communism
             (Garza, 1987). In 1950 President Truman approved a loan of $62.5 million to
             Spain; in the same year the United Nationals recalled its request calling
             on member nations to withdraw ambassadors from Spain. In 1953, Spain and
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