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...prop is the army, abetted by five kinds of security police. Traditionally conservative and monarchist, the army has been preened and pampered by the Generalissimo. Seven hundred thousand strong, it is the biggest in continental western Europe. With officers who have impatiently pressed for a monarchical restoration, the Generalissimo has played a cagey game. He, too, is pledged to bring back a king. But by judicious transfers of outstanding monarchists like General Alfredo Kindelan (first to the Canaries, then to house confinement in Madrid) and on his record in keeping the army out of World War II's losing...
Franco's Alternatives. On the face of their appeal to "leading" Spaniards, Washington and London seemed to be hoping (and they might secretly be dickering) for an army coup that would force Franco out, pave the way 1) for an orderly return of republican and monarchist exiles into a broadened caretaker government, and 2) for eventual free elections...
Inside Spain, ancient monarchist families painfully felt a new, hostile attitude. It was rumored that Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Fitz-James Stuart Falco, Duke of Alba (Britain's Duke of Berwick), the Duchess of Medina Sidonia, the Duke of Medinaceli and others were fined a half million pesetas for signing a royalist manifesto. It was fact that Alba and five more "ceased" to be members of the Cortes, that royalist officials were fired, that royalist university professors were assaulted by Falangist students...
...Monarchists gained. Pudgy, bustling Guglielmo Giannini, who skyrocketed his weekly Uomo Qualunque (The Common Man) to an 800,000 circulation by jeering at politicians, finally went political. A day before his Uomo Qualunque anti-politico movement was to hold its first national convention, he joined the monarchist Partito Democratico Italiano...
Alba's disgruntlement with things at home had long been known, his move long expected. But Alba, an ardent monarchist, might have been expected to stick at his post so long as he could do anything to help Pretender Don Juan de Bourbon, who has been waiting in Switzerland for the call to the throne. Apparently negotiations between Spain's moderate, non-Falangist faction and the Don Juanists had broken down. And Britain's Labor Government had shown no disposition to back a monarchist restoration in Spain...