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Built up into an octopus of politics and patronage holding the police, posts and telegraphs, reconstruction of devastated regions and immigration under the control of the Dictator's brother-in-law, Don Ramón Serrano Suñer, it was taken away from him and vested in Generalissimo Francisco Franco himself...
Neutral observers were not convinced by Axis assurances that despite the visit to Berlin and Rome of Don Ramón Serrano Suner, brother-in-law of Generalissimo Franco, Spain would continue nonbelligerent. Some 40,000 German "tourists" had filtered into Spain. Spanish popular agitation for the return of Gibraltar had been too well synchronized with Axis moves to be altogether spontaneous. It seemed extremely likely that the "Rock" was in for a winter of terrible poundings by the Luftwaffe and by artillery from Algeciras across the Straits. And if Gibraltar fell, it was further likely that Axis troops would...
Many things happened during the 19 days that Generalissimo Francisco Franco's big-shot brother-in-law, RamÓn Serrano Suner, spent in Berlin and Rome. Japan joined the Axis. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini made grandiose plans to conquer much of the world. The war moved toward the Mediterranean, which Don RamÓn's country bounds on the west (see p. 34). And Don RamÓn Serrano Suner, Minister of Government and leader of Spain's dominant Falangist Party, saw many interesting sights and talked to many important people, including Adolf Hitler...
When the correspondents were admitted to the vast Hall of Ambassadors in the Chancellery, they observed that Don Ramón Serrano Suñer was not there. Neither was any member of the diplomatic corps except slim, suave Saburo Kurusu, who represents Japan in Berlin and has a Nazi-phobe American wife. Just outside a door that leads to the offices of Adolf Hitler a long table had been placed. Ambassador Kurusu sat there, as did Count Ciano and Herr von Ribbentrop. Before them, on the table, lay a thin document in triplicate...
...showed that this might be true. To China a U. S.-Japanese war appeared inevitable. To Spain the U. S. seemed faced with a dilemma: intervene immediately or abandon Britain. Spanish newspapers said nothing of Spain's dilemma- to fight or to eat- as Don Ramón Serrano Suñer left Berlin for Rome...