One of the inherent problems of conspiracy against the established authority is always that of communication. Stuck away in Madrid, Salan since December was feeling both cut off and bored. Madrid, where the "Mandarin" had set up court at the Hotel Princesa, was a veritable colony for exiled right-wingers — Belgian Rexists, Argentinian Peronists, French Pétainists and former collabos — all living locked up in their pasts.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1336