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...south of Spain the same desire to beat the winter in the high mountains of Sierra Nevada put none other than bombastic Rightist "Radio General" Gonzalo Queipo de Llano off the air last week and into action for the first time in months. Neutral observers hailed this as prelude to a long delayed advance along the seacoast toward Almeria...
...silence extends over the high peaks of the Sierra Nevadas to the sea, where there has been no effective action since the capture of Málaga seven months ago. All this line is under control of el Caudillo Franco's most colorful subordinate, hoarse-voiced bombastic General Queipo de Llano, the "radio general...
Twice last week General Queipo de Llano was in the news. From Valencia came word that his sister Rosario, a Leftist hostage since immediately after the beginning of the war, had finally been released from jail in an exchange of prisoners. From his headquarters at Seville came a story of an attempt to kidnap the radio general himself. Weeks ago General Queipo de Llano set out on an inspection trip of the lines north of Córdoba. Entranced by his ceaseless flow of conversation, staff officers did not notice until almost too late that the chauffeur...
...Pride in Queipo...
From Salamanca, Franco's raucous-voiced "Radio General" Queipo de Llano, with his usual indiscretion, roared over the radio: "France's day of reckoning is not far off. . . . She has always been a bad neighbor and always acted against Spanish interests...