Pilar Primo de Rivera forms of Spanish folklore, specially in the fields of regional music and dances. She never married. Francisco Franco's foreign minister, Ramón Serrano Súñer, and Ernesto Giménez Caballero attempted to arrange a marriage between her and Hitler in order to create a fascist dynasty, but this plan never came to fruition. Pilar Primo de Rivera "Doña" María del Pilar Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, 1st Countess of the Castle of La Mota (November 4, 1907 – March 17, 1991) was the sister of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, a political movement of Spain, and the
Miguel Primo de Rivera this might be the reason why the Spanish Socialist Party and UGT were quick to cooperate with the government and its leaders affiliated themselves with the committees mentioned before. Individual workers also benefited because the regime undertook massive public works. The government financed such projects with huge public loans, which Calvo Sotelo argued would be repaid by the increased taxes resulting from economic expansion. Unemployment largely disappeared. But Primo de Rivera brought order to Spain with a price: his regime was a dictatorship, albeit a mild one. He censored the press. When intellectuals criticized the government, he closed El Ateneo,