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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\nmaterial into Spain to help overthrow the democratic\nRepublic. It was Goicochea, the monarchist leader,\nwho with others, also monarchists, went to Rome in\nMay 1934 and made all the arrangements with Mussolini\nfor his participation in the conspiracy.\nAnd it was not the falangists but General Sanjur-\njo, the monarchist who lead the futile monarchist re-\nvolt in 1931, who went to Berlin in 1935 and made the\narrangements with Hitler to send in his military\nforces when the time came.\nI am no end amused by the attempt to rehabilitate\nGil Robles as a noble figure who may be Prime Minister\nunder a King, not wanted by the Spanish people. He\nwas the Grand Conspirator when he and his people were\nin power from 1933 until the spring of 1936 when they\nwere overthrown in the elections; and it was he who went\nto Portela, the Prime Minister, at two o'clock in the\nmorning following the election to propose that he take\nover dictatorial power with the aid of the Army.\nI see now that Dr. Marañon is described as an\noriginal republican favoring the restoration of the\nmonarchy, who is seemingly being used. The fact is\nthat Marañon, whom I know intimately, was one of the\nparlor republicans in the last days of the monarchy\nwho found it fashionable and interesting to pose as a\nrepublican. He turned against the Republic quite\nearly because his republicanism was a pose and his\nson was sent into Spain to fight with Franco as a\nfascist, after he himself had left for France. He is\nthe greatest snob I have ever known. When the Queen\nwent to his office professionally to see him, he had\nthe elevator filled with flowers, etc.\nIt is well to bear in mind that even when the\nRightists won the elections in 1933, the monarchists\nwere able to elect but ten monarchists out of more\nthan four hundred and seventy members of the Cortes.\nMy own position in that war is well known. My\npersonal relations and contacts with the republican\nleaders\nSERVICE*\n6\nconnector"
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