Word: escudero
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pinto. To the next important portfolio, Defense, he assigned equally pro-Allied General Oscar Escudero Otarola, Commander in Chief of the Chilean Army. Thus in the new Chilean Government the military gained strongly at the expense of the politicians...
...Condemned to death after being returned from France were Cipriano Rivas Cherif, brilliant dramatist, lawyer, diplomat; Julián Zugazagoitia, Basque firebrand, deputy, editor, historian, Minister of the Interior in the last Republican Government; Antonio Cruz Salido, onetime Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Party; Carlos Montilla y Escudero, onetime Director of Spanish Railways, Loyalist Counselor in Havana; Miguel Salvador y Carreras, famed music critic, co-founder of the Madrid Philharmonic Society, Loyalist Chargé d'Affaires in Copenhagen. Over their bodies, the Spain of Franco aspires to a "prominent place over the ruins of Europe...