Pilar Primo de Rivera; Fascist Leader in Spain

Pilar Primo de Rivera, 81, a fascist leader during and after the Spanish Civil War. She co-founded the women’s branch of the Falange, Spain’s fascist movement, in 1934, and participated in the right-wing government headed by the victorious Gen. Francisco Franco after the 1936-39 civil war. Her brother, Jose Antonio, was leader of the Falange until he was executed early in the war by the government of the Second Republic, against which Franco revolted. Her father, Gen. Miguel Primo de Rivera, headed the military junta that ran the country from 1923 to 1930. Franco named her countess of Castillo de la Mota in 1960. She retired from the Falange in 1977. In Madrid on March 17 of a heart ailment.