SPAIN: Man in a Sweat

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Yet El Caudillo must have little time now for dreams, either of royalty or empire. At home he can hear the murmur of a discontented people. When the wind is right he may fancy that he hears the rumble of distant drums from Hendaye on the French frontier, from Allied North Africa, from Portugal.

Francisco Franco is a neat, spotlessly turned out little man (5 ft. 3 in.). He is fastidious about his person. One of his characteristic gestures is a dainty dabbing at his forehead with a handkerchief. When he dabs these days, it is no mere gesture.