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...corresponds to the 18th year of the Fascist Era and the 15th year of Showa (the reign of Japan's Emperor Hirohito), dawned clear and quiet in Berlin. There had been no air raid the night before and His Excellency Señor Don Ramón Serrano Suñer, Spain's Minister of Government and Falangist Party Leader, had had a good night's sleep. Don Ramón, who had been a visitor in Berlin for nearly three weeks, had, as usual, very little to do. He took a stroll in the direction...
First in Berlin and then in Rome, Axis policy took shape. Its precise contours were draped in more than usual secrecy, but the outlines showed through. Spain's Minister of Government and Falangist Party Leader Ramón Serrano Suñer, in Berlin on a visit, had several long talks with Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, then one long one with Adolf Hitler. Next day Herr von Ribbentrop left for Rome...
Back at his hotel, the Walrus talked to Adolf Hitler on the telephone. Next day he saw II Duce again, paid him a third visit before winding up his four-day mission and leaving for Berlin, where Don Ramón Serrano Suñer was still waiting to learn what Spain must do to earn her place in Hitler's brave new world...
...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...
...Serrano Suñer was educated in Italy, where he absorbed his Fascist ideas. He married the sister of Franco's wife. Under the Republic he was an obscure Govern ment lawyer, but when the death of General José Sanjurjo made Franco leader of the Rightist revolution Serrano saw his chance to impose his ideas on the politically uneducated Generalissimo. Lean, tanned and photogenic, Serrano has a driving nervous energy. His was the idea to fuse Spain's heterogeneous Rightist elements - Carlists, Monarchists, Traditionalists, Fascists - into the Falange. While the soldiers fought at the front, he organized...