“Keep Out” Sign for Germany

Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 112, 5 September 1942, Page 5

“Keep Out” Sign for Germany

CHIEF NAZI TOOL’S DISMISSAL Received Friday, 7.45 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 8. The long-expected showdown between the Spanish Army and the Falange, which is Spain’* Fascist Party, has suddenly burst with the dismissal of Suner who is the principal Falangist “boss,” gays the Daily Telegraph's diplomatic correspondent, "The whole shakeup may be read in Berlin as a keep-out sign. “General Franco found he can no longer temporise and has nad to awing right over to the army whose opposition to Suner and also to the Falange’a home and foreign polioy has been mounting for months. "Suner’s pro-Oermanlsm is intense, but he was compelled to observe a certain restraint in foreign affairs, probably at Franoo’s orders. During Suner’s control the Falange has been a tool in German hands. The Falangists have been introduced to all the departments of the State’s activities with the single exception of the army which was free from any form of party control. "The army ae a whole la fundamentally monarchist and the higher offioere are intensely nationalist. They ars pro* Spanish and nothing else. They do not want to aee Spain used as a German pawn and would put up a determined b not desperate resistance to any German plans for the invasion of the Iberian Peninsula."

A Madrid message confirms ths Cabinet changes. Jordana is a noted Spanish Jurist. Asenio, who is one of Franco's civil war generals, became High Commissioner of Morocco In 1939 and Chief of Staff of the Army in 1941. Perez replaces Galarza as Minister of Justice, Figueroa replaces Luna as the Falange’s Secretary. General. Asanlo hbs been appointed a member of the Falange Political Committee.