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...last week, Aranda was silent. To a newsman who tried to interview him at his club, he sent a note saying: "The General wishes to announce that he is totally uninterested in politics...
Major General Antonio Aranda Mata is still honored in Spain as the stubborn and victorious commander of the Franco forces in the bloody Civil War siege of Oviedo (1936) which lasted 91 days. But one night two years ago Franco police arrested Monarchist Aranda in a brewery where he had been meeting fellow members of the Comité Imperio de Coordination, a clandestine coordinating committee of anti-Franco underground groups. Aranda's civil war record bought him his freedom. He went into retirement, dividing his time between the reading room of the Club Casino de Madrid and his apartment...
...Sulzberger: 1) recent food strikes in Spain were planned, had the support of monarchists, police, and employers who promised to pay the strikers' wages; 2) the Spanish army is divided and in the event of war, Spaniards will not fight for Franco, but against him; 3) General Aranda heads a monarchist-left-wing socialist opposition...
What finally burned Juan Plate to a crisp, it appeared, was what Chief of Staff Aranda had to say about a proposal to build schools for 74,000 Paraguayan children. The Colonel's answer: the Army's needs were more urgent; the children could wait. The Army would see to their education (the boys, anyhow) when they...
When Colonel Aranda read Juan Plate's statement last week he thundered: "Paraguayans' patriotism must be protected from exotic ideologies and from political excesses. The crucible where this gift [patriotism] is forged is in the barracks...