FASCIST FUTURE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 183, 4 August 1936, Page 7

FASCIST FUTURE.

IF REBELS SUCCEED

Speculative View of Outcome

Of Revolution.

PROBABLE 300,000 DEATHS

United Press Association. —Copyright,

LONDON, August 3,

A correspondent of "The Times," telegraphing from the FrancoSpanish frontier, quotes one of the highest personages in the pre-election Government of Spain as saying: "If the rebels succeed Spain will become an appendage of Signor Mussolini and Herr Hitler. Fascism will possess three European fronts and France will be strangled.

"Spanish deaths will total at least 300,000. The course of history will be changed. The only way in which to save the situation is speedy diplomatic intervention by other Governments.

"France cannot take the initiative. A friendly gesture by Britain to procure a truce and terminate the massacre might avert both Fascism and Communism in Spain by persuading the insurgents to arrive at an ■ understanding with the Government, which might also be open to reason. The only remedy is recognition of the actual situation."

The Burgos correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that Fascism is spreading fast in Spain as a result of a national movement which has united all patriots. Heavy Fascist Losses. The Fascists have lost heavily, not in the actual lighting, but in street massacres organised by the Reds in Barcelona and Madrid. The blood thus shed is one of the most powerful recruiting influences. The leaders of the Spanish Phalanx, the most important section of the movement, declare they have been compelled to restrict the number of volunteers owing ato the difficulty of equipping them.

Tile Spanish Fascist doctrine resembles that of the German Nazis. It declares war on "Judahism, freemasonry, Marxism and separatism." The programme of the Phalanx declares opposition to all individual and class interests, demands a pre-eminent position in Europe for Spain, also the strengthening of her armed forccs, mercantile marine and commercial air fleet.

The programme adds: "The new Spain will be a totalitarian State. We intend implacably and systematically to abolish all political parties, ill-organised suffrage and Parliamentary representation by competing factions."

Senor Onesino Redondo, reputed to have been the founder of Fascism in Spain, was lured from a motor car by disguised Loyalists at the village of La Bajos and fatally shot.