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EMBASSY OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Santiago, September 13, 1945.
Dear Mr. President:
I am intensely interested in the Franco maneuvers
in Spain and the actions and pretensions of the monarch-
ists and since, in the nature of things, our people in
Madrid have contacts mostly with the monarchists, since
the republicans are in jail or exile, I shall be glad
to furnish my own ideas about men and things, if de-
sired.
The statement of the Pretender that he will not
return without a plebiscite as to monarchy or republic
is intended to create the impression that he wishes
the Spanish people to have voice in the determination
of their future. Permit me to suggest that this is
sheer pretense unless, with that statement is coupled
the pledge that no plebiscite will be held under t he
supervision of the enemies of the democratic Republic
that was destroyed by the Axis or until all political
prisoners are released and the hundreds of thousands
of the gallant soldiers of democracy that held back
the triumph of the Axis for two and a half years are
permitted to vote in the plebiscite. Anything else
would be a mockery and properly resented by every real
democrat in the world.
It ought also to be borne in mind that it was not
the little fascist party of Primo de Rivera and Franco
that invited the Axis Powers with their armies and war
material
The Honorable
Harry S. Truman,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
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