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5 : ° 9 Page 2 of 7 pages (continued) BER: 4121/43 The consequences of FRANCO's spesoh, fhe situation bas cleared up considerabiy Through Tame PRERCO"S last speech. This spagch contains an expreasion of policy which 4s the following: If HITLER wishes to pars through SPAIN on the wy to GIBRALTAR and WORTH AFRICA he will encounter no cbaheain, 1) Because the present SPABISH regime desires his victory. 2) Because the people are a0 demoralissd they will not be able to oppose hin. (If the ALLIES 4n NORTH AFRICA encounter difficulties, how can one expect an unarned people to perform miracles?) Although a propaganda founded on strategic reason: attributes SPAIN with intentions of neutrality, FRANCO'S declaration in which not Quce does he use the word neutrality, 10 sufficiently clear to diesipate any hopes of this sort. Nor is it any use to maintain that the SPANISH situation hes in cny my changed, especially as the ch was made after the exchange of letters with P22S IDEN? ROOSEVELTs The disparity ie evident and it is ridiculous te try to make out eny- thing differents Officially SPAIN bas made e change through FRANCO'S spsech by de~ blaring its doctrinal adherence to the AXIS. But it ali indjoates that watever the reasons there are cortain elements who would Mike to preserve the present “status quo", the type of persons who are always ready to meet DARLANS und cam to terme with them, although by doin; so the objects of the struggle are weakoned and nations end by collapsing. I am ple: that thie hampering attitude whioh has always existed hes manifested itself now, and not st the end of the conflict which would huvs beer vary dergerouse The contrary reaction which this attitude is productcs 1a a very good Sign. Nevertheless, J can assure you thet no-one hes confidence any longer in PRANCL, who 1e considered and has been classified as an enemy of the ALLIED ceure. It iaa .’ matter which was bound to develop in thie way. It is necessary, howeve-, to keep in mind the balance on the other side which is represented - as it ms previously in WISSCLIRI'S ROME = by the large number of people; among then mexy of high principles, but generally misinformed, who believed FRANCO to he @ saviour of the pecple, as KUSSCLINI was considered to be: it is an anti=liberty agitation, One must not forget the enormous influence of CATHOLICISM in thie sountry,"now placed in an equivocal posi~ tion ~ as is happening in SOUTH AMCRICA = for having supported 7HANCO with political influence from the pulpit. And in such a way that it conveys ap absolutely felse Aden on the religtous cepect of the struggle. All thie cannot be changed in a diy, it te too firmly rooted in the widesepread places’ from which it derives 4te influence. Here, if these forces joined with others which emanate from the LATIN countries ant even from the VATICAN itself, they wi constitute through fear of the colleces of what are termed the CATHOLIC courtries, s powerftl force which if it doce not conforr to the unstable and discredited present position af the SPANISH State, ‘s anxious to pursue its policy in environments which respond to its idval and needso In Pesard to the intrigues of the monarchist elements in SPAIN and elsewhere as we view then fron hore, events will prove how difficult it is to pin one's faith on something that bas neither been recorded nor is the will of the people. I am ina position to teli you thet this possibility diminishes daily, Sven PRAECO himself has exorezced bis opinton in this reepect sufficiently clearly to give the supporters of a monarchiat restoration no hope. ” . Comments on SreAlAMAN'S Writingss I do not Imow whether J am wrong in wy criticism cf Sr ALANS articles which T have read ith interest, but I seen to notice ir then “exoollent intentions. One needa to find out what he is drivin: et, to interpret many things gradually, decause the accumulation of past prejudices cunnot be uprocted al). at onceo For exemple, in one of them he happens to the. lan + or catholic concepts with SPAIN. Here, for exeaple, an@ even autonomy by some are considered as somethin; contrary, evento CATHOLICISH, on account ef the confusion of ide to which I refer. . ‘Nevertheless, BroALAMAX shows a olear and determinod desire, although perhaps not alto. gether happy in ite mode of expression, to separate the. For thia reeson I belinva that_J should elear up the pointe ~ I sm eure + you must have done 6 yourself - by Gayings The BASQUE people, the BASQUE natior, BUSKAD], is an xotiva avaber of Hestern Christian civilization. That is ecumenical waius. It is tis taking of a determinate Christian position which has drawn attention to the BASQUES? case. The question of whether or no the BASQUES should belong to the SPANISH ctute bas not the sane fundamental importance as their belenging to the Woatern Chriatien Community. This is the ceso in regard to AKLGIANS, FRESCBMEX, DUTCEMEN, PONTUGUESE, FNGLISEMEN and AMERICANS of a1] ols: What would be Sr.ALAMAN'S adyioe to us Af COMZUNISK oF Sonathing similar were established in SPAIN? Ho would put forward ir'euch onsep let (continued) | yi