Word: serranos
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...Foreign Minister, Franco named blond, blue-eyed General Francisco Gómez Jordana y Souza, an anti-Falangist Tradicionalista who was Foreign Minister when the U.S. recognized Franco's Government in 1939. Count Gómez Jordana is considered less pro-Axis than Serrano but was loudly pro-German in World...
Franco himself took over the post of chief of the Falange, naming as the Party's vice president Manuel Mora Figueroa, an aggressive Falangist just returned from service with Spain's Blue Division fighting Russia. Without a quiver of regret for Serrano, the Falange newspaper Arriba declared: "Our internal policy follows its unmistakable line and our foreign policy is sealed with blood and reaffirmed in silent heroisms...
Distress. Berlin and Rome, having buttered up Serrano as their pride & joy, had no ready explanations for his new role as whipping boy. In a sense his dismissal was a diplomatic slap, but it meant no sudden switchover in Franco's generally pro-Axis policy...
...Ambassador Carlton J. H. Hayes, Catholic scholar from Columbia University, stayed on the job and had an interview with Serrano during the time the Nazis broadcast, inaccurately, that he had flown to Gibraltar. Hayes's able diplomacy and Rooseveltian chatter about U.S. post-war tourist plans were seen by some as forerunners of a more friendly attitude from Franco. But Franco has remained neutral for other sound reasons: 1) An open break with the Allies would ruin Falange propaganda and espionage work in the Western Hemisphere; 2) Spain would become a potential invasion point for the Allies; 3) Franco...
...Castillo Government, which has never concealed its sympathy with Spain's hotly pro-Axis Falange, was highly embarrassed when Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco ousted Ramón Serrano Suñer, head of the Falangists, from the Spanish Government (see p. 24). This lessened the propaganda value of Argentina's new trade treaty with Spain, signed last week...