I want to welcome everyone back to part nine of my reading of Warren Carroll's The Last Crusade.

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All right, we got the October chapter here

and as long as I'm feeling okay,

which feel pretty good today.

We should be able to finish this one in one episode.

So let's go.

October.

On the first day of October in Burgos, General Franco was formally invested with the Office of Chief of State of Nationalist Spain.

His speech of acceptance was calmly uncompromising.

My hand will be firm, my pulse will not tremble, and I will raise

Spain to a place befitting its history and its past standing. Our government will be for the people, for the middle class, and for the poorer classes.

We will establish social justice, if necessary, with an iron hand,

the man who has no beliefs, who has no spirituality, who does not love his family, is not a man, not a Spaniard.

He is nothing.

He established it once a cabinet in a civil administration, including Carla's secretaries of education,

the post they had originally demanded of Mola and San Juro without success and commerce. The new government under Franco's direction at once began asserting control over trials,

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