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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...
Brother-in-law Serrano Suñer had just made an elaborate pilgrimage to Berlin and Rome (TIME, Sept. 30). The Generalissimo has all but officially joined the other dictators, but the most that the Axis got officially last week was that Serrano Suñer, relieved of his Ministry of Government, was made Spanish Foreign Minister, a shift that went over with a bang in the Axis press...
...that they were remaining nonbelligerent, had shown their relief by demonstrating in the streets. They were glad to welcome El Cunadissimo home under such circumstances. Don RamÓn reviewed picked contingents of the Falangist militia, then rushed home to see his sixth child, borne by Señora Suñer the night before. It was a girl...
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...
...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...