Franco at Bilbao (extract)
1939-06-20 012b-0027-002 Extract from an article which appeared in "Il Popolo d'Italia" on 20th June, 1939. FRANCO AT BILBAO The defeat of Basque separatism signifies the decline of English influence in Spain. BILBAO, 19th June. Important political significance, both from...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | 1939-06-20
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Extract from an article which appeared in "Il Popolo d'Italia" on 20th June, 1939. FRANCO AT BILBAO The defeat of Basque separatism signifies the decline of English influence in Spain. BILBAO, 19th June. Important political significance, both from the nationalist point of view in Spain and the international point of view, attaches to the present stay of Franco in Bilbao, in Biscay, the ex-spiritual and economic centre of Basque separatism. Bilbao was in fact the moral capital of Basque separatism. It was the leading centre of British influence in Spain and of the systematic interference of London in Spanish internal politics, and was also one of the great strongholds of social Communism in Spain, the personal "fief" of the famous Indalecio Prieto, and the no less famous President Aguirre, whose names occupy an unforgettable place in the dramatic story of modern Spain, because their names are dripping with blood. Prieto and Aguirre have on their conscience the assassination of no less than twenty thousand people. For fifty years Basque separatism has been the great tentacle of Great Britain in Spain, just as Catalan separtism was the great tentacle of France. The former was controlled by the bankers of the City and the second by the Grand Orient in Paris. By means of these two separatist movements, London and Paris constantly held up the Madrid Government to ransom and imposed their will by provoking local disturbances, strikes,
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