Word: francos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many groups in the Catholic Church are also deeply monarchist; so are the officers of the army, who are likely to be in complete command of Spain if Franco should suddenly die or be swept from office. Their role would then depend on the situation. In case of threatened civil strife, the army's determined leaders will undoubtedly form a military dictatorship to keep order. Otherwise, they will probably favor the monarchy...
Father or Son? Franco is likely to remain silent on the succession. He is playing a rather coy game with Don Juan and his family, dropping a hint here, a favor there, without committing himself...
...relatives who might wear the crown, but the only serious alternative to Don Juan for the throne of Spain is his tall, handsome, newlywed son. Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon, 24. Fortnight ago, he interrupted his honeymoon with Princess Sophie of Greece to present his bride to Franco at a lunch at Madrid's Pardo palace. Most Spanish monarchists are convinced that Franco would prefer the younger, more pliable Juan Carlos, when he becomes eligible at age 30 under the succession law. The theory is that El Caudillo still resents Don Juan's two bitter public...
Moreover, Don Juan's own relations with Franco have warmed considerably-at least on the surface. Elaborate arrangements are now always made for refueling Don Juan's yacht in Spanish ports. Once, in Majorca, sailors from Spain's naval base were given liberty for the occasion of Don Juan's visit, and saluted the Saltillo, moving the Pretender to tears as he piloted the craft...
...Canada, the couple took a house in Cannes. Within a year, civil war had broken out in Spain; abruptly Don Juan rushed off to join the nationalists' struggle against the republicans. But General Franco wanted no help from the monarchy, replied that Don Juan's life was "valuable and will be needed later." Until they chose a place to live at Estoril in 1946, Don Juan and his family roamed through Europe, as he puts it, "like the wandering Jew." The Reign in Spain. He is a handsome bull of a man, with no trace of the family...