The daily independent., 1937-07-22
Queipo de Llano Broad
casts and Wins Many
Verbal Victories

Hendaye, Franco Spanish
Frontier. July 21.-(U.R)-Gonzalo
Queipo De Llano, Nationalist
"broadcaSting general" will be-
come minister of war in Gener-
alissimo Francisco Francois die
tatorship, frontier reports said to-
night.
Officials of the Nationalist Jun
ia said the 46-year-old Castllllan
of the fierce mouStachloS and
muledrivers vocabulary would be
given cabinet rank when Franco
announces his cooperative
Spanish state, probably within two
weeks.
Francois elder brother, Capt.
Nicholas Franco Of the inSurgent
navy, probably will be minister OF
navy.
Although Queipo De Llano is
one of Francois most competent
generals he would rather fight the
enemy through the microphone OF
radio seville than lead his south
ern nationalist army into battle,
He has been broadcaSting every
night for months, and he never
has lost a battle-on the air.
He is the worlds first broad
casting general" and the Showiest
figure of the year-old war.
He has a radio audience that
runs into the millions. and along
the frontier they gather around
every night to hear "Queipo's bed
time stories"
In Barcelona. Valencia and
other Loyalist cities of Spain, peo-
pie huddle around loW-tuned ra-
dio sets in darkened rooms to lis
ten to the generals reports. If the
Guardia Civil caught them at 1t
they would be taken before firing
squads, for it is high treason un-
der Lo, alist military law to lis
ten to him.
In France and England people
wait up until past midnight TO
tune in Oh radio Seville. Quejpo
De Llano's imagination and hrs
choice selection Of epithetS, pun
ctuated by hiccoughs, always are
good for a laugh.
He says the insurgents don't
have to kill many real SpaniardS
because they're always anxious to
throw down their guns and sur
render. When he talks about the
enemy dead he's usually speaking
of "thoSe Bolshevik Russians and
Frenchmen."
He hates the French almost as
bitterly as he hates the Loyalist5,
although he found refuge in Paris
six years ago when the monarchy
ran him out of Spain after he
tried to start a one-man revolu-
ton.
Queipo De L,ano staged a gala
night at radio Seville short time
ago when there fell into his HANDS
book on love written by vice
premier Leon Blum Of France
back in 1912 when Blum was an
unknown but ambitious journalist.
"Mothers" shouted Queipo De
Llano into the microphone.
Mothers of Spain! Chase your
unmarried daughters away from
your radio sets I must read
portions of this book aloud, but
I pray that not many will listen.
These extracts will show you the
type of man who is directing
Frances affairs
The insurgent general chuckled
mirthfully and once turned from
the mlcrOphone TO aQdreSS Stu-
dio companion with the Spanish
equivalent of pretty hot, eh?" as
he repeated Blum's twenty-year-
old advice to young men and Wo-
men to indulge in premarriage ad-
ventures.
The general knows the Loyal
lists say he's always drunk and
"wobbling in front of the micro
phone" so he frequently takes
time out to explain that he is vir-
tually a teetotaler and to deliver
a brief lecture on the curse Of
strong drink.
Queipo De Llano broadcasts
from his cluttered office and US
ually starts out seated at his desk.