Reign in Spain
MOWRER, RICHARD SCOTT
Generalissimo Franco and exiled Pretender deadlocked over university education for future king Reign in Spain By Richard Scott Mowrer MADRID GENERALISSIMO Francisco Franco has a serious...
...Then Anti-Espana 1959 showed up in the bookstores again...
...For one thing, they say...
...to develop a personal relationship with the bov...
...In other words, there are other ways of insuring the regime's continuity than by resorting to the principle of royal succession...
...Unless one or the other gives in soon, or a compromise is reached, an open break between the two seems inevitable...
...for another, the Pretender doesn't want his son to be exposed to Franco's political indoctrination...
...The institutions and persons that follow this regime must be in its service," he said...
...Early in December the book was withdrawn...
...This would also expose the youth to the company of persons whose political ideas the Generalissimo approves...
...On December 29, Franco took advantage of his annual State of the Nation speech to warn Don Juan and his supporters to watch their step...
...He was not, he said, going to allow his son to be sent to Salamanca...
...it looked as if everything had been smoothed over...
...This would give Franco an opportunity, which he has lacked up to now...
...But the quarrel is holding things up...
...This would have dramatic consequences for Spain...
...Right after Juan Carlos graduated from Zaragoza military academy people high in the Government let it be known that the Prince would continue his studies at the University of Salamanca...
...Written by a member of the Falange...
...This is an open challenge to Franco...
...These events led to the present deadlock: In November a book came out entitled Anti-Espana 1959...
...He is now ready for the next phase: study at a university...
...It is believed that Franco wishes Juan Carlos to attend either the University of Madrid or the University of Salamanca so that the Prince will be near enough to take part in the Caudillo's week-end hunting parties...
...It would be a grave mistake, he said, "to confuse the continuity of this regime with a system of succession based on elections or heredity...
...The Prince has just completed four years of military training as part of an intensive educational program mapped out by Franco and the boy's father to prepare him for eventual kingship...
...It turned out that the book had been withdrawn temporarily so that an apology could be inserted...
...Now agreement is needed again...
...Generalissimo Franco and exiled Pretender deadlocked over university education for future king Reign in Spain By Richard Scott Mowrer MADRID GENERALISSIMO Francisco Franco has a serious behind-the-scenes crisis on his hands...
...Since nothing may be published here without prior clearance from the Ministry of Information, it was evident that the regime approved the book...
...Prince Juan Carlos was among the young soldiers present to receive their commissions...
...The crisis stems from a quarrel between the 67-year-old dictator and Don Juan de Bourbon, exiled Pretender to the throne...
...In 1943, and again in 1954, Franco and the Pretender agreed on the course the education of Prince Juan Carlos was to take...
...Spain's only authorized political party, it caused a big stir because of the viciousness of its attacks on the Spanish royal family...
...Don Juan wrote Barroso a letter of appreciation...
...Franco went further...
...Franco is determined that Spain's next ruler shall perpetuate his authoritarian state...
...This angered Don Juan and he dispatched a strongly worded letter of protest to Franco...
...It threatens to demolish his plans to ensure continuity of his 23-year-old authoritarian regime by placing a tailor-made king on the vacant Spanish throne...
...On December 12, Minister of the Army General Antonio Barroso made a speech in which he said nice things about the monarchy...
...Monarchist sources say that the Pretender now refuses to send Juan Carlos to any university in Spain, that he is considering as alternatives Louvain University in Belgium, or the University of Bologna in Italy...
...The deadlock has developed into a test of strength, and obstinacy, between Franco and Don Juan...
...Anything else would lead to fraud...
...It also jeopardizes the chances of a Bourbon restoration in the foreseeable future...
...The dispute centers on the education of Don Juan's 22-year-old son, Juan Carlos...
...Author Mauricio Carlavilla had written something ("in a moment of passion") which had offended Franco's brother-in-law, former Foreign Minister Ramon Serrano Suner...
...the Pretender doesn't want the Prince to be placed in the inferior position of being a member of the Caudillo's entourage...
...Hence the apology...
...The occasion was the graduation of new officers from the military academy at Zaragoza...
...With this in mind, he drew up the Law of Succession of July 26, 1947, which specifies that Spain's king, or regent, must swear an oath to uphold the "fundamental laws" of the National Movement— that is to say, of the regime...
...But in the resurrected book there was no apology for anybody else...
...Monarchist sources say these are exactly the reasons why Don Juan threatens to send his son to a university outside Spain...
...This, combined with the news that Anti-Espana 1959 was on public sale again, angered the boy's father...
Vol. 43 • February 1960 • No. 7
