Word: caudillo
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...Serrano Suñer, sped across southern France to the Italian Riviera town of Bordighera, where II Duce was waiting to shake hands. While an Italian armored train, its guns turned on the Mediterranean, chuffed nervously up & down the Riviera between San Remo and Grimaldi, II Duce, El Caudillo and the man Spaniards derisively call the Big Shot Brother-in-Law (El Cuñadissimo) sat down to talk...
Spain's Problem. Whatever he may be as a soldier, II Duce is a very good diplomat. He would not have dreamed of going to Franco as a suppliant. Instead, he told El Caudillo some of his friend Adolf Hitler's plans for the conquest of Britain and for the New Order in Europe after the war. El Caudillo was sympathetic. He had nothing but the warmest wishes for the success of the Axis plans. He would like to participate, but there was a little matter of bread...
Enigma in the Pink House. Roberto Ortiz, who may be the caudillo of his country if his health lets him, was on the point of accomplishing a revolutionary ambition when illness struck him down...
...Louvre in Paris. It now stands in the Berlin office of Adolf Hitler and on the Dictator's greeting card is shown with a flight of German bombers and fighter aircraft. Instead of ''Merry Christmas" the card reads "Our Winged Victory," Recipients: Il Duce, El Caudillo, Rumania's Antonescu...
...that after the war Britain would give the Rock back to Spain, lease it until international disarmament could be effected; meanwhile Britain would finance Spanish reconstruction in return for continued neutrality. With a national debt of some $2,000,000,000 staring him in the face, El Caudillo was naturally interested...