To the man who dreamed it up as a reminder to posterity of the glories of his reign, the $12 million war memorial in the Valley of the Fallen (TIME COLOR, Jan. 26) was becoming more embarrassing by the minute. A year and a half ago, Generalissimo Franco grandly announced that the dead on both sides of the 1936-39 Civil War would share the honor of being buried in the Valley. But his own followers were so repelled by the idea that Francisco Franco appeared to be the only sure candidate for the vast crypt. Last week he went...
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