Word: serrano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thin, nervous, ambitious Don Ramón Serrano Suñer found the road to success was comparatively easy. While his fat-bottomed brother-in-law, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, was crushing Spanish Loyalists, Serrano skulked behind the lines, building up the Falange Espanola Tradicionalista. As head Falangista, Serrano controlled Spain's sole political party with a claimed membership of some 2,500,000. As head of the Ministry of Press and Propaganda he controlled what all Spaniards (supposedly) read and thought. As Minister of the Interior he controlled what they ate and when they went to prison. When...
Disease. From a family standpoint, Don Francisco Franco had plenty of reason to smack down his upstart inlaw. Serrano had dutifully fathered the six children of Señora Zita, handsome sister of Franco's wife. But a few months ago, Spaniards reported with bitter humor, Serrano had presented his wife with a social disease. His name was linked in Madrid café jingles to at least three women: the wife of a South American diplomat, the sister of a Spanish writer and a comely actress...
...these extramarital relaxations were not enough, then there were two other good reasons for dropping Serrano into the political ashcan. Three months ago in Rome, Pope Pius XII dressed him down for his sparsity of morals and his abundance of pro-Axis sympathies. Leaving the audience in a white rage, Serrano reportedly cracked: "This fellow is impossible!" In Catholic Spain the slur was intolerable. Even worse was Serrano's bumble of Aug. 15 when his Falangist thugs tossed a grenade into a crowd coming out of Bilbao Cathedral...
Disparities. A friendship pact in 1941 marked a new and closer liaison between Portugal and Spain. Since then frequent conferences between Franco and Salazar may have led to military understandings. Present at most of them has been Spain's gadabout Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer. But Portugal, besides relying on British sea power for protection of colonies in Africa, India and the South Seas, has had friendship and trade pacts with Britain since the 17th Century. The Portuguese have also watched Brazil, which broke from the mother country in 1823, move toward war against...
...advance man in Prague, had dropped out of sight. David (now Viscount) Margesson, then Tory Party ringmaster, now a General Electric director, admitted: "Public opinion demanded there should be changes." In Madrid Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary Munich supporter, welcomed at the British Embassy Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer, who that day also visited the German and Italian Ambassadors...