“We will not seat at the same table with the comunists. I will never talk to them.”

— Manuel Fraga Iribarne

Reported in Hernández, María Jesús. El verbo de don Manuel http://www.elmundo.es/especiales/espana/manuel-fraga/perlas/02.html Elmundo.es. <br class="br">Transition to democracy

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Spanish politician 1922–2012

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“We will not seat at the same table with the comunists. I will never talk to them.”

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