NATIONAL MOVE
PURPOSE OF REVOLT
GENERAL'S STATEMENTS
LONDON, July 23,
The "Daily Mail's" San Sebastian 'correspondent says that General Mola issued a statement, "Tell everyone, especially the British people, that the movement which General Franco and myself are directing is not selfish nor in support of our prestige. It is a national movement directed by army generals, with the direct support of authentic Spaniards, in order to extirpate for ever everything representing Marxism and establish peace on a purely Spanish basis."
The "Daily Mail's" Gibraltar correspondent says that General Franco issued a manifesto stating that the uprising was a national non-party movement to restore order and expel Communism. .He promised leniency to those who surrendered who had not transgressed the law. The national movement would protect workers and clear. out agitators and parasites who battened on their wages.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 22, 25 July 1936, Page 9
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138NATIONAL MOVE Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 22, 25 July 1936, Page 9
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