MOVE FOR PEACE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 18 February 1939, Page 12

MOVE FOR PEACE

SPANISH NEGOTIATIONS.

GUARANTEES SOUGHT.

(United Press Association; —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received February 18, 1.10 p-m. PARIS, Feb. 17. Despite the persuasion, of Senor Del Vayo, who is going to Alicante, President Azana and Senor Barrio (Speaker of the Cortes) decline to go to Madrid. Senor Del Vayo’s chief success was in inducing President Azana to defer his peace proclamation.

Senator Berard (France) is again going to Burgos in order to discuss the conditions permitting de jure recognition of General Franco involving assurances regarding the evacuation of foreigners. Sir Robert Hodgson is simultaneously negotiating for Britain. The terms apparently depend on guaranteeing the safety of. Loyalist ex-combatants and the termination of foreign intervention. The Paris correspondent of the London Times understands that England and France favour this basis, to which the Loyalists will probably agree immediately. A Burgos report says that, _on the ground of exercising a pernicious policy towards Spain, Nationalists have been dismissed from the Central TJniversiiy. They include Professors Pablo de Azcarate, Loyalist Ambassador to Britain. Luis Azua, a former Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, Jose Giral, War Minister, whom General Franco warned in 1936, Fernando Delos Rios, Ambassador to the United States, Senor Negrin and Julian Besteiro.