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Last fortnight, Spain's Foreign Minister Count Francisco Gomez Jordana made a more open attempt to bring about peace between the Axis and the Anglo-American Allies. Pointedly referring to the worldwide danger of the "revolutionary communistic idea," he offered Spain as a mediator. Gomez Jordana also said: "The Holy See, which labors with such love for the welfare of humanity, and those nations the war has spared, will be able without doubt to facilitate the advent of peace and collaborate in the preparation of treaties...
Officially Franco still remained neutral. He sent his Foreign Minister, Count Francisco Gómez Jordana y Souza, and twelve military and diplomatic bigwigs for wining, dining and a joint accord on neutrality and anti-Communism with neighboring Portugal.* He welcomed home General Agustin Muñoz Grande, recently decorated (by Hitler) commander of the Falangist Blue Division fighting in Russia. From his train window at the border, the general shouted: "Long live the mothers who begat the most valiant soldiers in the world." At San Sebastián Falangist crowds cheered his prophecy of "certain Nazi victory over Russian...
...Foreign Minister, Franco named blond, blue-eyed General Francisco Gómez Jordana y Souza, an anti-Falangist Tradicionalista who was Foreign Minister when the U.S. recognized Franco's Government in 1939. Count Gómez Jordana is considered less pro-Axis than Serrano but was loudly pro-German in World...
...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 Gómez Jordana, formerly the strongest Cabinet spokesman of the old Army point of view. The anti-Axis Army, in short, would in future have to confine its remarks to the parade ground, and leave control of Spanish foreign policy to the upstart politicians...
...peace, the same pre-war figures kept control of the State and the Army. No new military reputations were made on the Nationalist side of the war. Colorless, efficient General Franco was a familiar face in Spain long before the war, as were Generals Yague, Gómez Jordana, Aranda, Queipo de Llano, most of the old-line Monarchists, officeholders, Fascists, conservative Republicans who backed General Franco's revolt, grabbed posts in his Government. But Spain had changed more than her leaders. In three years she had lsot...