In Madrid last week the ominous "Min istry of Government" changed hands.
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...
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