Word: serrano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer boasted last week that, if they were needed, Spain would add 1,000,000 men to the Spanish Blue Division of 20,000 already sent to fight beside the Nazis in Russia. Russian sources recently claimed that 350 of those boys in blue had been sent back from Germany with venereal disease, 800 had deserted after an 850-mile march, mostly by foot, from Berlin to Novgorod, more than 8,000 had been killed on Russian soil...
Meanwhile the German transocean news agency announced in a Berlin dispatch that Spains Generalissimo Francisco Franco, accompanied by Spanish Foreign Minister Ramon Serrano Suner, was expected to leave Madrid Wednesday for Seveille to meet President Antonio Oscar de Fragose Carmnoa and Premier Antino de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal...
...gave signs of high satisfaction with the progress of the New Order. > Adolf Hitler's own Völkischer Beobachter announced that a Portuguese military mission would shortly be the guest of the German High Command. > In the French Fascist weekly Gringoire Spain's Foreign Minister Ramon Serrano Suner, brother-in-law of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, went much further than mere expression of Spain's own contentment. Wrote he: "I think that all Europe -continental Europe and overseas Europe as well, although this may seem paradoxical-will stand or fall with the Axis." Vichyfrance, said Minister Serrano...
Beneficiary of this shake-up was the Primo de Rivera clan, the royal family of the Falange. Falangist Arrese married a cousin of Founder José Antonio Primo de Rivera. But the big gainer was Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suòer, who as head of the Falange's Junta Politico, outranks Secretary General Arrese. Just how much Serrano and the Falange had gained was made clear in another decree removing the division of press and propaganda from the Ministry of Government and placing it in the hands of the Falange...
...Colonel Valentin Galarza Morante Minister of Government. The nearest thing to a confidant that General Franco has, Galarza will be in charge of local and provincial governments, propaganda, health, relief, national reconstruction, the national police. Since Boss Franco's brother-in-law and the Falangists' boss, Ramon Serrano Suner, gave up this portfolio last autumn to concentrate on the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Government has been run by Jose Lorente, one of Serrano's disciples...