GETTING RID OF FRANCO

Chronicle (Levin), 18 December 1946, Page 5

GETTING RID OF FRANCO

Received Tuesdav, 7.5 p.ni. . hOXIXlX, Dec{ 1 The Uniteil Xntion.s1 resolution ori Spain has strengthened the movenient aimed at bringing about tlie resignatiou of the Giral Republican Governinent in exile, says the -Daily Telegraph 's Paris correspondent. Manv liiglily placed Spaniards abroad feel that the eoutinued existenee of a government pledged to set up a republic iu Spain and niore or less dependent on Aloseow is an obstaele to widet understanding between tlie anti-Franeo elemeiits inside and outside the eountry. This view, the correspondent ndds, is also held by at least three of Giral's Ministers whose pressure may cotnpel hioi to resign on his return to Paris from Xew York. "Where are our prineiples? " asked Cardinal Griflin, diseussing the Pnited Xations' deeisions on Franco Spain at a nieeting of the Gatholie Council for Polish Welfare. "We are told we must not interfere iu the intemal politics of Spain.*' Dr. Griflin said he hoped the Allied Governnients would see that the Polish eleetions were free and that if not they would carry out their threat not to acknowledge any Government olected hv force. • -y

Spanish superioritv over the rest of the world was tlie maia thenie of two ■ speeclies General Franco delivered at saragossa, says The Tiines' iVIadrid correspondent. Speaking; to cadets of the Military Aeademy and' later to Aragonese farmers who he addressed as "mv people," Franco declared that in moral standing and soeial evolution Spain was ten years ahead of other nations. The chaotic consequences of war had plunged all but a few enlightened peoples into the outer darkness and hypocrisy prevented- them realising the error of their wavs. History showed, liowever, that Spain when united was invincible. "Such chauvenistie utterances," the correspondent says, "are clearly intended to soothe Spanish pride wounded by the United Xations' resolution against. the present regime. " He adds that many Spaniards have been startled to learn that a uew eoinage is to be minted with an effigv of Franco and a description: "Leader of Spain by the frace of God. "