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2) The requetes of Navarre and Old Castile, reactionary monarchists, who fight in red boinas (berets) and would like to bring back to Spain the little known Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, a onetime Belgian artillery captain whose sister is ex-Empress Zita of Austria.
3) The Falange Española, whose members wear blue shirts embroidered with a design of five red arrows. They are outright Fascists and want no king at all.
4) The Renovation Española, a small and rather discouraged group of royalists who want the return of Alfonso XIII or at least Prince Juan, healthiest of his children.
All these parties and factions are supposed to be represented in Caudillo Franco's 20-man Junta, loosely modeled on the Italian Fascist Grand Council and decreed last April. But the Junta has never sat. The group which actually runs the highly simplified government of Rightist Spain is no larger than the very elementary requirements of a military dictatorship. Francisco Franco, one of the few Spaniards on the peninsula who does not take two hours off for lunch, does most of his own work. He has no formal cabinet, but is helped by a handful of more or less obscure administrators.
One very important department of the Franco government, the treasury, is still quartered in Burgos. At the start of hostilities the Rightists simply surcharged the Republican currency. In April these bills were withdrawn from circulation, however, and new bills bearing the imprimatur of BANCA ESPANA rolled from the presses at Burgos and have been kept at a fictitious value of about 10¢ a peseta inside Spain.* This was the job of Salvador Amado, Delegate of State for the Treasury, who has imposed a strict embargo on exporting the money across the border. The $700,000,000 Spanish gold reserve fell into the hands of Valencia, so Senor Amado has had to hump himself to keep the Rightist treasury in funds. This he has done by means of "voluntary" contributions from the rich, by forced conversions of foreign securities into Burgos bonds and by credits ($180,000,000 last January and probably much more today) from Italy and Germany. Also in Burgos, the Delegate of State for Industry & Commerce, Senor Joaquin Bau, is busy encouraging the exportation of wine, oil, cork, minerals (which can be procured in almost pre-Revolutionary quantities) to acquire foreign exchange.
In Salamanca the general reply to any and all inquiries about the State's affairs is that the Generalissimo will have to be consulted. However, El Caudillo has given a career diplomat, Miguel A. Muguiro, the title of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Brother Nicolas Franco, who is nominally General Secretary of the Nationalist Government but actually Right Spain's Premier, is apparently the only man in the Government who could be considered as an administrative assistant to the dictator. His duties are vague but his prestige is considerable.