Franco was a monarchist at heart.
It was either him or the Communists.
How do your friends feel about the current situation in Spain?
Haven’t seen them in a while. Got to know them when I was working in New York back in the ‘80’s’’. They were two brothers who were plumbers. They told me in 1938 they left Spain with their parents to live with an uncle in Argentina.After WW2 the two of them came to NYC.