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...German Army ripped through France. The Germans lined the road on the French side of the Hendaye bridge with tanks and motorized equipment to a depth of a mile and a half. This implied threat and, even more, the influence of his strongman brother-in-law, Ramón Serrano Suñer, led Franco to change his mind...
...adissimo. Spaniards' designation of Don Ramón as the brother-in-law-issimo is a none-too-gentle jibe at both Serrano and the Generalissimo. Privately they sometimes call Franco "that pulpy olive fashioned into the likeness of a man." For most Spaniards feel that Franco is a wobbler, that Ramón Serrano Suñer is the power behind the fasces...
...black uniform and the red beret of the Falange, El Caudillo reviewed 15,000 troops marching through the flag-bedecked but still war-scarred streets. Behind the troops marched column after column of Falangists, led by Franco's brother-in-law Ramon Serrano Suñer, chanting their battle song, Face to the Sun. Fighting planes roared overhead. Authoritarian Spain had been told it had much to be happy about. Special editions of Government-controlled newspapers had shown the contrast between Spain of a year ago and Spain of today. Brother-in-law Serrano, who is also Minister...
This pastoral was published in the Ecclesiastical Bulletin of Toledo (Cardinal Coma's see), then released to the secular press. The Spanish censorship (headed by Franco's brother-in-law, Ramon Serrano Suñer) clamped down on it. More over - according to report - the Government forbade the pastoral's reading in the churches...
Minister of Government: Ramon Serrano Suner...