HAROLD L. ICKES: A State Department Shell Game.

Focuses on the relations of the U.S. with Spain under the regime of Dictator of Spain Francisco Franco Bahamonde. Pros and cons of resuming friendly relations with the United Nations and voting Spain into it; Circumstances that made U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson to decide to abstain from voting on the motion to admit Franco's Spain to the United Nations; Comment on the assertion that Franco maintains a highly-paid lobbyist in Washington D.C. by Colonel Robert S. Allen.