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...Facha -a Castilian expression implying "What a sight!" Though he is a dandy in his uniform, Agustin Munoz Grandes has never liked the pomp of his office as chief of Spain's General Staff, and has remained a relatively modest man. He regularly attends soccer games in Madrid dressed in sports clothes more suitable to a workman; he and his wife live in a small, unpretentious apartment, and he rolls his own small black cigarettes. Unlike other Cabinet ministers who tool around Madrid in chauffeur-driven Cadillacs and Mercedeses, Munoz Grandes favors a small black sedan. Once he drove...
...small, greying, no-nonsense soldier, Munoz Grandes was born in Madrid in 1896, received his early military education at the military academy at Toledo, from which he graduated in 1915. For nearly 20 years, he served in Spanish Morocco, where he won a reputation as a fair, able officer. In 1925, while leading one of the Spanish army's Moorish battalions against the Berber uprising in Morocco, he suffered serious chest wounds. One of the leading planners for this campaign was Munoz Grandes' close associate,Colonel Francisco Franco...
During World War 11, Munoz Grandes was the first commander of Spain's "Blue Division," which Franco sent to fight alongside the Germans on the Russian front; for bravery in action, Adolf Hitler personally awarded him the Iron Cross. After returning to Madrid, Munoz Grandes served in several army posts, played an important part in negotiating Spain's 1953 agreement to permit U.S. air bases on Spanish soil. In 1957 Franco promoted him to the rank of captain general (the Spanish equivalent of field marshal), the next year named him chief of the General Staff...
...part of Spain's bill of rights that safeguards the Spaniards' right to make their residence anywhere in the nation. Then the police went out to nab the more important figures as they flew back from the Munich meeting. Gil Robles was among the first arrested at Madrid's Barajas airport. The cops read him the new government decree, offered him the choice of residence in Spain's faraway Canary Islands or exile abroad. He promptly bought a ticket on the next plane and flew to Paris. Don Juan's privy council, a loose association...
...crown, but the only serious alternative to Don Juan for the throne of Spain is his tall, handsome, newlywed son. Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon, 24. Fortnight ago, he interrupted his honeymoon with Princess Sophie of Greece to present his bride to Franco at a lunch at Madrid's Pardo palace. Most Spanish monarchists are convinced that Franco would prefer the younger, more pliable Juan Carlos, when he becomes eligible at age 30 under the succession law. The theory is that El Caudillo still resents Don Juan's two bitter public anti-Franco proclamations...