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...Generalissimo Franco's "personal rule" in Spain has remained relatively unchanged during its eighteen year existence. Several weeks ago Franco announced certain reconstructions in the administrative machinery, and last week the Generalissimo indicated that he was considering granting "more liberties" to the Spanish people for "loyal and constructive" political criticism...
...result of 20 years of political mismanagement and economic neglect, Cabinet meetings during the past six months have been getting rougher and tougher; Monarchists boldly attacked the Falange Party, the Falangists demanded complete control of the state apparatus, and church representatives quietly plugged Christian Democracy. Two weeks ago Generalissimo Franco called in his 16-man Cabinet. "Gentlemen," said he, "I should appreciate your finishing all your pending affairs today, because this will be the last meeting of this Cabinet...
...Spanish, economy could not look brighter," bragged Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco in his annual New Year's message last week. "Many apparently great nations envy us." There was, he conceded, a crisis just at the moment, but that was merely the "natural" result of economic expansion and would soon be straightened...
Though born in Madrid, far from the rugged Basque region athwart the western Pyrenees, Galindez considered himself a citizen of the short-lived autonomous Basque republic abolished by Generalissimo Francisco Franco.* As an exile in the Dominican Republic (1939-46) and the U.S., Galindez kept in touch with the Paris "government" headed by Jose de Aguirre, first and only President of the Basque republic. Aguirre himself appointed Galindez as the official Basque representative and fund raiser in the U.S. In his half-yearly statements filed with the foreign agent section of the U.S. Department of Justice, Galindez reported taking...
Died. Prince Alfonso of Bourbon, 14, younger son of Spanish Pretender Don Juan and brother of Prince Juan Carlos, Generalissimo Franco's hand-picked candidate for the Spanish throne; of a gunshot wound while cleaning a pistol in the game room of the family residence in exile; in Estoril, Portugal...