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...mechanized German units advanced, the Smigly (nimble) cavalry of Generalissimo Smigly-Rydz swept around them to get at the German infantry. Poles claimed that successful counterattacks of this nature had carried the fighting to German soil on the west, in the neighborhood of Breslau and, in the north, over the East Prussian border below Allenstein. For this week, a major battle loomed as the Poles fell back upon prepared positions along the Narew River...
Within an hour of the Leader's death on May 12, 1935, 49-year-old Edward Smigly-Rydz* became Inspector-General (or Generalissimo) of the Army, Fourteen months later he had the Premier send out a circular to all Government ministries proclaiming him "Second Citizen" of the Republic, next in rank in every way to the President, who by the Constitution was Commander-in-Chief of the Army. Last week the President signed his own superiority away. Marshal Smigly-Rydz was made Commander-in-Chief, was designated successor to the Presidency in case of vacancy before the war ends. President...
Since then all except the Moors have fought each other like cats in a bag. It was evident that Generalissimo Francisco Franco's attempt to keep the peace between these yowling groups was certain to fail. His ambitious brother-in-law Ramón Serrano Suñer, Minister of the Interior, was using his increasing power to build a radical Fascist Spain, an annex to Axis foreign policy. The businessmen, Royalists and officers who wanted neutrality and a return to the good old days got together in another alley and sharpened their claws...
Last week Señor Serrano Suñer won another round when Generalissimo Franco shook up the Cabinet and the Falange, now the only legal political organization in Spain. Already Minister of the Interior, Serrano Suñer became president of the policy-making Falangist Council and acquired the portfolios of Public Order, Sanitation and Health. His most potent rival within the Falange, anti-Italian, conservative Raimundo Fernández Cuesta, lost his jobs as Secretary of the Falange and Minister of Agriculture. An even more important scalp was that of Foreign Minister General Count Francisco...
While dealing out posts to his brother-in-law, the Generalissimo did not altogether forget himself. By subordinating the power of the Council of Ministers in cases of emergency he liberalized his power to rule by decree and abolished the office of Vice President. When the purge was over there were only two anti-Serrano Generals in the Cabinet, and they were in non-policy-making positions. Generals José Varela and Juan Yagüe were made Ministers of War and Air, where El Caudillo can keep an eye on them...