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Last month the long-awaited showdown began. General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano whose radio broadcast was a nightly comic turn during the War, made a speech declaring that the Army, which had done the fighting, should also do the ruling-not gun-shy, upstart politicians (like Señor Serrano Suñer). The brash General was promptly removed from his command of the South. Also dismissed was Juan Yagüe, pudding-faced idol of the Moroccan corps. If the purge of Army malcontents had been completed it would have meant the expulsion of Rebel heroes like Generals Solchaga...
Last week Señor Serrano Suñer won another round when Generalissimo Franco shook up the Cabinet and the Falange, now the only legal political organization in Spain. Already Minister of the Interior, Serrano Suñer became president of the policy-making Falangist Council and acquired the portfolios of 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...
...Señor Serrano had won a great victory. But with the politically minded Army excluded from power, food scarce, millions of unreconstructed Republicans, and recovery lagging, observers last week wondered how long his minority of a minority could force individualist Spain into a strait-jacket rule...
...from their posts, presumably because of too ardent opposition to the Fascist notions of the youthful, fiery Ramón Serrano Suñer, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Minister of the Interior and, next to the Generalissimo, Spain's most powerful figure. Last week the list of Señor Serrano Suñer's opponents grew to include, among others, such military stalwarts as Generals Miguel Aranda, hero of the Oviedo siege; José Solchaga, the commander of the Navarrese Corps, José Móscardo, defender of the Toledo Alcázar in the early...
While it was obvious that the long-awaited showdown between militarists as represented by the generals and Falangists (Fascists), headed by Señor Serraño, was not far off, it was less obvious which side Generalissimo Franco, umpire of the showdown, would favor. It would suit the purposes of the old-time generals to have the monarchy restored; the Falangists are against restoration. Some indication that the Generalissimo, once a stanch Monarchist, was favoring restoration came in the report that the Duke of Maura, now living in Portugal, has been dispatched by General Franco to see former King...