FOURTH CONGRESS OF FOARE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000440007-9
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 29, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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COUNTRY Me deo/Spain
SUBJECT Fourth Congress of FOARE
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The IV Congress of the Federacion deg Organises de Ayude a U Republica Espanola
M FOAIO , which is scheduled for 26 througdi 29 November, will be held in ?Mexico
City in the Telaphone Workers Syndicate building.
2.. According to source, the most important ob5eetives of the convention are:
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a? To exert sufficient pressure on the United Nations to mate that organization
break with Franco in all respects;
b. To give publicity to the persecution and axis es being c^?'t itted in Spain at
present;
c, To write` all non-Prieto Spaniards in prevailing upon Repablican Prim er
Albornoz to appoint a Cc waist to his cabinet, possibly Dolo s Ibarruri or
Vicente Uri' . Actually, according to eouresp the principal intention here
is to weaken A1bornoo a s power until he is f inal.l v ousted, and Negrin cart step
into praerer; _
d. To reject categorically the intentions of Prieto to form a junta in place
of the Repu?blicr'n Government, which would leave Franco tie only governing
power in Spain;'
To render 9.Ul possible help to the Guerrilleros in Spar, and the Spaniards now
residing in France. Also to have. the UN exert pressure ? rhich would encourage
all Sparataris to reunite rindsr the FOARL In connections with the latter point,
source reports that the prIncipal aim is to help Negrin train control of anti-
Franco activities.
3. Preliminary meeting; in preparation for the convention were :weld .by r+"Oiil'E on 18
and 23 September, and tr- the Spanish Ccaiunist Party on 1 and 2 October. At the
first F JUtE meetiJng;, osteneaib ,y held to honor Jew::>e Mancisido r after his recent
trip to Europe, the following were among those p--esents Tv: _ Kumarian, Charge
d$Affa .,Taw a.i. of the Soviet Embassy;' Vases Welkor, Second a:,crettary of the Polish
Legation; Hinko Razpor, Charge d'Affaires of the Yugosl aviary Embassy; Juan B.
Gc nem, of the Francisco Javier Mina Society; Ricardo Casten] )te and Dr. Enrique
Arreguin of the FOA::RE; Hreazo Pitha, Secretary of the Czechoslovakian Legation;
Felipe M. Arconada of the Spanish Communist Party; Jose baniol Crespo, Ambassador
from Panama; and Jose Msrroquin.of the CTM After an address by Mancisidor, a
telegram was sent to the 'UN requesting the overthrow of Franco, and one to Premier
Aflornoz supporting his government, bit at the same time asking him to admit
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Communists and Negrinistas in the Cabinet in order to attain stronger national
unity.
4. The second FMRE meeting was called a "press conference," but wat also for the
purpose of making preparations for the IV Congress. Present at this meeting were
Dr. Enrique Arreguin, Rosendo Gomez Lorenzo, and Rodolfo Dorantes of. the Workers'
University; Beatriz Badad of the Polish Press Office; Juan B. Gomez of the Francisco
Javior Mina Society; Hinko Razpor of the Yugoslavian Embassy; Alberto Bremauntz
of the Attorneys' Socialist Front; German List Arzubide of the SITAI; Felipe M.
Arconada of the Spanish Comriunist Party; Santos Ruiz, aid to Minister of Government
Hector Peru 'iartinez; and Joaquin Arderius Sanchez Fortuny of tFe Spanish Embassy.
5. Invitations to attend the congress have been sent to all the syndicates of the
Confederacion de Trabajadores de Mexico, the Confedoracion Unica de Trabajadoree
de Mexico,, and the CTAL. Also invited are delegates from the syndicates of the
Federecion Siridieatos Trabajadores del Estado, the Co .unist Party of 2:exico, the
Accion Socialists Unificada, the Sindicato Nacional do Nineros, and the knbaeeios
of Russia, Spain, Yugoslavia, Poland, Panama, Guc.terala. France. Chile. Colombia,
Cuba, and Venezuela,
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