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Spanish Socialist leader Indalecio Prieto was considered a possible prime minister in April 1936 when Azana became president. What I've always been intrigued about him is the respect that elements on the Spanish right had for him. For instance I read somewhere, perhaps Payne's book about the last months before the war, that Primo De Rivera had so much respect for Prieto that he would seek to join his Falange to the Socialists if Prieto became prime minister. Anyway, this idea of Prieto taking power and perhaps splitting the right wing forces arrayed against the Republic is a new avenue of AH to consider.
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