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FRANCO'S REGIE.
INFORMATION FOR U.N.O.
"Huge Military Forcet"
NEW YORK- May 13.-The
American Associated Press learns
shat a report by the Premier of
the Spanish Republican Govern
ment (Senor Giral) to the Secre
tary-General of U.NfO. (Mr.
Trygve Lie) includes allegations of
atomic research in Spain. It as
serts also that General Franco is
maintaining a huge military force,
a large part of which is massed
on the French. frontier; also that
he is not only sheltering many
notorious Nazis but is actually
employing former GeAtapo officers
in the Spanish secret police, some
of whom are named. Franco is
also accused of tortures, terror
isms and cruelties in. Spanish
prisons and concentration camps.,
The "New York Times" says the
Spanish Republican Government will
probably present to the Security
Council's sob-committee on Spain to
morrow a 350-page report on
Franco's Spain, which is believed to
be along the expected lines. Asser
tions that Germans are experiment
ing in atomic energy in Granada and
Murcia are renewed. Much of the
document, it is reported, deals with
the activities of over 50 Gestapo
agents, who are directly influencing
Spanish policy.
The Security Council's sub-com
mittee met for 2j hours today. It
was informed by the New Zealand
Government that the latter had no
information regarding the Franco
Government, which it had never re
cognised. The Belgian Government
reported that Franco had refused
to hand over the traitor de GrelIe
(former leader of the Resists, or Bel
gian Fascists), thus creating bad
feeling between Belgium and Spain.
The sob-committee examined docu
mentary evidence regarding persecu
tion and execution of republicans
and other. political opponents of
Franco and decided that it would ac
cept information from Spanish
underground sources, subject to proof
of each document's authenticity.
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