 He was even acting General Secretary for a spell in 1940.However Gamero was no Francisco Franco loyalist and his ambitions for Serrano Súñer led to problems for him.He consulted in January 1941 with Hans Lazar, the press secretary of the German Embassy and told him that a Serrano Súñer government would commit to the Axis powers and thus asked for him to arrange for the Nazis to publicly back his mentor.