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Last week, as Don Ramon prepared to leave Rome for Madrid, it was announced that he and Il Duce had discussed plans for an Arab revolt to be fomented by Spain and guided by Mussolini under his title of Defender of Islam. This was nonsense. Spaniards and Moslems have been enemies since the 8th Century. The talk about an Arab revolt was designed either to cover a real Axis plan involving Spain or to conceal the failure of the Axis and El Cunadissimo to sell Brother-in-Law Franco...
...Ramon was sorry, if not humiliated, that his brother-in-law's caution prevented him from doing more for his important friends. One thing he could do: snub the Vatican, and he pointedly refrained from asking for an audience. The Vatican's Osservatore Romano as pointedly took note of the omission in a paragraph that was clearly a rebuke. But the Vatican can neither blockade Spain nor help her to recover Gibraltar...
Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano hurried down from Brennero to say good-by to his Spanish friend before he flew back to Madrid from Rome. When Don Ramon alighted at Madrid's airport the people of Spain had already been told that they were remaining nonbelligerent, had shown their relief by demonstrating in the streets. They were glad to welcome El Cunadissimo home under such circumstances. Don RamÓn reviewed picked contingents of the Falangist militia, then rushed home to see his sixth child, borne by Señora Suñer the night before...
Ever since Argentina's hard-shelled, old-guard conservative politicos combined with a rebellious branch of the Radical Party to put President Ortiz and Vice President Ramon S. Castillo into office in 1938, they had wriggled with impatience...
Also running last week were two political freaks: Ramon de la Paz, a gay druggist of Mexicali, Lower California, whose only political asset was his name, which means "peace"; and General Sanchez Tapia, whose only expectation from the campaign seemed to be to get some advertising for his Jersey dairy farm near Mexico City...