NO AMNESTY
FRANCO STATES HIS POLICY. TWO MILLION ON CARD INDEX. IDEA OF MEDIATION SCOUTED. (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, November 7. The British United Press correspondent on the Ebro front says that General Franco, in an interview, declared that the war had been won but fighting would not cease until the loyalist soldiers’ broke their leaders influence. General Franco scouted the suggestion of mediation, and added that a geneial amnesty would not follow the war, hut redemeption through labour would be enforced.
“We have over 2,000,000 persons on a card index, with proofs of crimes. Amnesties are demoralising,” said General Franco, who instanced Senors Negrin, Caballero and Oliver, who granted an amnesty in 1936, after which they instigated, a revolution and caused the death of 500,000. German and Italian racial doctrines would not he applied, but the Liberal epoch would be ended. The failure of the Powers to grant belligerent rights had prolonged the war. Recognition of such rights would now be an unimportant and insignificant gesture.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 24, 8 November 1938, Page 5
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