SPAIN: Corridor or Living Room?

In the long, silent struggle between Spain's soldiers and Spain's politicians to see who is going to run the country and whither, the soldiers had their inning last week.

Last autumn it was the Falangists going into the big jobs, the military going out (TIME, Oct. 28). This trend was reversed last week when Caudillo Francisco Franco appointed Colonel Valentin Galarza Morante Minister of Government. The nearest thing to a confidant that General Franco has, Galarza will be in charge of local and provincial governments, propaganda, health, relief, national reconstruction, the national...

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