FATE OF SPAIN
RECOGNITION QUESTION.
AGITATION IN BRITAIN.
TRUCE AWAITED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Independent Cable Service.) Received February 17, 10.10 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 16.
Forty-two Oxford professors and tutors have telegraphed Lord Halifax (Foreign Secretary) urging Britain not to recognise General Franco while the Government holds territory and Italian and German troops remain in Spain.
The Evening Standard says that England and France are delaying recognition of General Franco in the hope that President Azana will issue a proclamation to the Republic announcing the end of Republican resistance and advising tlieir surrender to General Franco.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 68, 17 February 1939, Page 7
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