[3] In addition to commentaries on the political situation in the surrounding region, such as Morocco and Algeria, as well as Franco Spain, the station also carried religious broadcasts such as The World Tomorrow and the Baltimore Gospel Tabernacle.
Sold clandestinely in Spain, its impact obliged the then information minister, Manuel Fraga,[1] to set up a department dedicated to modernising the State's historiography.
A Study of Journalism, Diplomacy, Propaganda and History (1977) deals with the effort by Franco's propagandists and admirers to wipe out the atrocity at Guernica.
Two years before its publication, and on the advice of the French historian, Pierre Vilar, the manuscript had been successfully presented by Southworth as his doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne.
Only three days before his death, he delivered what Preston describes as a more fitting epitaph: the manuscript of Conspiracy and the Spanish Civil War: The Brainwashing of Francisco Franco, published by Routledge.
[10] He died on 30 October 1999 in a medical centre of Le Blanc, close to Saint-Benoît-du-Sault (Indre), the French village where Southworth had lived his last two decades.