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...Ramon Serrano Suner, Spanish Foreign Minister, sat down with British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare in Madrid and signed a commercial agreement that freed frozen Spanish credits in Britain and provided the basis for a revival of Anglo-Spanish trade. Opening transactions included the sending of 6.000 tons of manganese ore, urgently needed by the Spanish steel industry, and a cargo of jute from India. Spain contracted to send her entire export crop of bitter oranges and large quantities of sweet oranges to England, and was assured of an end to difficulties over the import of seed potatoes...
Like Joseph Stalin, Ramon Serrano Suner was playing a cagey game. No sooner had the trade agreement with Britain been announced than he set out for Paris to talk to Pierre Laval. While he was there the major remaining units of the French Fleet sailed from Toulon on a mysterious mission. Next day the Fleet was reported maneuvering in the Mediterranean. By steaming around in the Golfe du Lion the French Fleet could keep a good part of the British Mediterranean Fleet disengaged without firing a salvo. Mad at Britain over Oran and De Gaulle, and under pressure from Germany...
...Ramon Serrano Suner went on to Berchtesgaden for his third visit to Big Boss Hitler within two months. Italy's Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano met him at Salzburg. Day earlier Bulgaria's Tsar Boris III secretly visited the Fuhrer in Berlin. With so much diplomatic activity, and with the air war over Britain and the sea war in the Atlantic and Mediterranean gaining fury, the Second World War moved inexorably toward a new and greater climax...
...probably intending a good deal more than that. When General Francisco Franco's slick brother-in-law Don Ramon Serrano Suner returned from his first trips to Berlin and Rome he began tapping members for a Hispanidad Council, designed to foster "intelligence and love" for Spain in Latin America. Since one of the first Councilors was Spain's new Consul for Havana, it looked as if Don Ramon meant to replace German and Italian fifth columns with the Falange...
When Colonel Fulgencio Batista decided last summer to make himself the de jure as well as de facto boss of Cuba, he persuaded the politically potent Menocal family to renounce its support of Opposition Candidate Dr. Ramon Juan San Martin and swing crucial Havana his way. In return he got behind dapper, high-living 40-year-old Raul Garcia Menocal y Seva in the city elections, hoisted him from Havana's ballrooms and race courses to the mayoralty. Last week came Raul's induction. Immediately he ran into trouble...