Spain on the Eve

This report was completed in the middle of June and is based on a visit to Spain in May and early June. Early in July, the King dismissed the previous Prime Minister, and the new Prime Minister’s cabinet did not include Fraga and other key reformists whose orientation I discuss. Rather than to rewrite the report, I prefer to let it stand as is, and have added a postscript assessing the new situation.—L. C.

When Señor Manuel Fraga Iribarne, then the Minister of the Interior, intellectual fountainhead and strongman of the Spanish government’s “reformist” wing, received me in his office, I could not fail to note the huge portrait of the young King over his desk. As I left I passed in h...