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- 18 -3/4612exaggerating, since in the Russian Campaign they said that the Russians were defeated already and nevertheless months passed and the war went on. Our informant did not know the existence of the Anglo-Soviet and Soviet-American pacts, although he heard some agreement spoken of, but he never knew exactly what it bas. There was a lot of talk about the second front, and it is thought it will be in France. When asked what, in the event of the English landing in Spain, the attitude of the people would be, he says he thinks the Requetes would unite with them. When I told him I thought they had sent a brother of mine to the Div. Asul. he made a face as if they had sent him to the devil. "I am sorry, because those wo go to Russia in generd do not return, and those who do come back are crippled for life". He says that to the Div. Axul was joined by the unfortunates who are, with their families, dying of hunger, and adventurers and robbers; some too because they were soldiers already and did not dare say no because they would have cut their throats if they had. He says that in the beginning a group of 40 left Santander and a few months ago ten came home, armless, legless or tubercular, the restdied of it. One of them, a captain, and tubercular, told some of his family and friends that all the Ogrman propaganda on the Russian war was an absolute lis. That the Russians never retreated until they were killed or received an order to retreat. That it is a lie to say that they have no leaders, and similarly that they have rio material. He knew better than anybody what the war in Russia had already cost the Germans.. During the winter they had lost millions of men and a great deal of material. It was terifying what went in there. He says that those who come back from Russia are forbidden to speak of what they see there and therefore it is impossible to get more details. However they tell their friends in confidence.ASSISTANCE GIVEN BY THE FRANCO FALANGIST REGIME TO HITLER. - The reinforcements they send to the Div. Asul grow less each time. No one wants to go because the stories of the survivors are gradually passed round. He adds that the Germans pay then very highly. They give them 3.000 pts. just for crossing the frontier. A few months ago a few left Santander to concentrate in San Sebastian. It is there that they train. While before, they made propaganda out of those who were going to Russia, and saw them off at the Station, now it is done secretly.All foodstuffs are sent to Ogrmany, that is why there is famine in Spain. "I wish you could see all the things they send. Imagine that one cant get olive oil, which used to be so abundant in Spain". They say that in Bilbao and in Reinosa (?) and other places the factories work for the Germans. According to him there are no German soldiers in Spain, only technicians. Germans in civilian clothes are particularly common. He added that the Ogrmans spend millions on propaganda and there are many newspapers, reviews, pamphlets etc. which are distributed gratis. The people, as a result of so much propaganda, do not know what to think on some points. They say - "If what the Germans say of Russia is true that country is doomed to disappear; there is nothing but savagery there". He says that some German propaganda postcards show Roosevelt and Churchill dressed as prostitutes, and Stalin in the middle embracing them. The people do not like this kind of propaganda. As for the German infiltration into the country, he limits imself to saying that they are the masters in Spain. He gives no data. He says that the Falange is very much weakened, that only timeservers and those who do business, thanks to the positions they occupy in.it, are its supporters. Whereas, when it began, everybody wished to be Falangists, now no one takes any notice, and some people are careful to conceal the fact that they are Falangists. They say that the Requstes appear very upset. They were the ones who fought hardest in the war and now the Palangists are taking advantage of the victory. He says they do not give positions to the Requetes, and when the Falangists control the syndicates they do not give then work either. There is a great deal of discontent among the Roquetes, and they have already begun to speak openly against the Falangists and those whon they blame for the present situation in Spain. They accuse them of being rabbars. He says that they have printed broadsheets about the Falange, which they scatter on the streets and stick on walls at night. He adds that the syndicates have many members, because membership is obligatory, bat if it were not so no one would belung. They oblige the young men to enter the Trente mix de la Juventud", although many are already losing their fear, and