SPANISH COMMUNIST PARTY COMMUNICATION DELIVERED TO SOVIET AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 14, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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Miguel Seguaajauregui, President of the Patronato de Ninos k spanoles
en la URS.S and a member of the Information :bureau of the Spanish Commrunist
Party,.. delivered a letter from his party to the Soviet Ambassador in
Mexico City The letter, dated 14 April 1949,, addressed to ?" Comrade,
Soviet Ambassador," I~`axico City,. is quoted in translation below:
"The Central Committee of the Spanish Communist Party in Mexico, in full
cognizance of the present political situation of the Spanish problem,
before the coming UN meeting, appeala to you with the usual cordiality,
asking that you send this recommendation to the Soviet representatives
at the UN.
"The present circumstances. regarding the problem of Spain at the UN can be
subdivided into two principal ones: one, the circumstance created by those
nations which, despite previous resolutions,maintain relations with the
bloodthirsty regime of F ?anco; the o!.her, the circumstance formed by the
block of nations hostile to Franco. Included in the block, in addition to
the glorious Soviet Union, are Poland,, Rumania, France, Bulgaria, Slovakia,
and Croatia in Europe, and Mexico.a Guatemala, and Panama, on the American
Continent.
. "These blocks of nations, according to reports, will completely adhere to
their usual attitude. But we know that, when the Atlantic Pact is established
In Europe, a pact that is a war instrument of Yankee imperialism, the
nation; included in it may modify their attitude. The opinions published
in Washington concerning the signing of this Pact are well known.
~ "'Concretely, we know the case of Portugal. As a signer of the Pact, she
will bring pressure to have Spain included in the Pact, not wishing to
break the treaty of mutual friendship established by the two countries.
6. "Italy, whose foreign policy is directed by the reactionary Sforze, wants
,he imperialistic :countries to support the constitution of a Mediterranean
Pact, a measure that tends to reconsider the strategic value of Spain and
;he need for her to sign by exception.
7m "We also know that Churchill , on his recent visit to the United States $,
persuaded the repressentatives of Belgium, Holland, Denmark, and Norway to
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b.c~ir~.g preas~u~re ,.aeon ~~,taeir diploz~atic r?~prQSerxts~:ives tip the Jlst in ~?t~~?or
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s~',Hith the ~oregoiazg inforr?ation' eat forth to Comrade, the Soviet
c ?.~ebassadi~r, the opinion of the Central Cor~nittea of the Spanish Com~zuniat
a arty, which is summarized in the i."ollo~in~; points s
eta) ?.~hat the Soviet Union should not yield to anyone th? initiative
of rea;~'fi~..ng in the UYJ her anti-~~'ranco pos~.tiona
19b) That, in ~-ie~ of the opinions tha'~ mayr be axpr?ssed at the cor[ting
sessions of the U;1, the Soviet represeaita~ives require the deciaia~;
di.scontinua.nce of all direct or indzrect aid to tho Franco reg~i.mem
"c) `.Phat the duplicity of Yankee di.pla~a.cy in sending railroad material
to Franco .and in con~~sentin~; to loans from the privst?~ A~mc>ricarl banks be
publicly denounces~s
^d) That there be an investigation of" the mission entrusted to several
members oi' the 3Vortlx ~,merican ~dSilitary StafY" vrho at the pr?aent time are
on an official mission to Spain and that the secret contacts that have
existed between the Yankee military m~.asions in Cg:~ablaz~ce and theSpanish
m:~litaxy missions of ~'angier be denouncedA
i?e) That the extra-official Span3.sh, reprs~se~ntatives, headed by Mrs L~lbornoz,
be re~,uYred to reorganize the Spanish government, admitting to it our
repreaQntativ?g among labor~sra and politiciana4
"V~e assure you of our socialist protect,
Signed: Felipe ~~~ ~-rconeda and. Ricardo Gaatellote.,
~3oae I~ie~,ruezs Secreta$~ C~raeral of the Yo,athsv
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