SPANISH CABINET

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 July 1945, Page 5

SPANISH CABINET

NO FASCIST PURGE LONDON, July 21. A new Spanish Cabinet, headed by General Franco, was officially announced in Madrid last night. The Falange chief, Senor Jose Lui Arrese, is dropped from the Cabinet, and Senor Martin Artajo, a Catholic leader, replaces Senor Jose Leqqerica as Foreign Minister. General Raimundo Cuesta, former secretarygeneral of the Falange. becomes Minister of Justice. . The following are the other Ministers; —Minister "of War,. General Fiedl Divila; Marine, Admiral Regalado; Air, General Eduardo Gallarza; Commerce, Senor Antonio, Suances; Agriculture, Senor Carlos Rein; Public Works, General Jose Burm: Interior, Senor Blaz Gonzalez; Laboui, Senor Jose de Velasco; Education, Senor Jose Ibanez Martin. “The replacement of Senor Leouarica by Senor Artajo indicates an orientation towards the Vatican anct an effort to woo support from world Roman Catholic opinion,” says tne Madrid correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain. Senors Burin, Gonzalez, de Velasco, and Martin, who were in the previous Cabinet, are all zealous members ot the Falange, which disproves predictions that General Franco had intended to purge the Fascist elements from his Government.”