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Word: vigon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1946-1946
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...Generalissimo's grip on the Army tightened. Royalist Lieut. General Alfredo Kindelan was ordered off to "confinement" in the Canaries, where once the Republic had tried to confine Franco. Franco's old friend Lieut. General Juan Vigon Suerodiaz moved into the Chief of Staff post. Command of the Valladolid region went to Don Juan's unfriendly cousin, Francisco Bourbon, Duke of Seville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Royal Standards Down | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

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