SPAIN: A Suitable Kind of King

Aware that millions of Spaniards, though mindful of his extraordinarily good run of health, may be worried over who succeeds him, Dictator Francisco Franco, 64, has agreed that he will permit the restoration of the Spanish monarchy at some unspecified future date. In 1954 he reached a secret understanding with Don Juan, the Pretender to the Spanish throne, who lives in exile in Portugal, for his son Prince Juan Carlos to attend the military academy in Spain. Last week Franco gave Spaniards a sketch of the kind of monarchy he is planning...

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