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and assassinate. Three months ago at the Puerto de Somiedo, they machinegunned a bus wit: travellers in it and the Civil Juard retreated. Theyare assisted by the discontented peasants and their families. If they cameto Franco, with their hands free of blood, he would pardon them".TERROR - At the beginnig they shot many people, especially to pay offpersonal scores. Now it is done through the tribunals. It is a fact thatshooting continues, but only for those ondermed to death.....FUTURE PROSPECTS - Perhaps the end of the war will solve all these problems,The Governments of Spain will impuse peace, law and order as soon as the waris over.RESTORATION OF THE NARCHY, - All a lie; all respectable people supportFranco and the disagreements there are between the parties do not constitutea problem.DI SAGREEMENTS IN THE ARMY - He says there are none. Queipo was sent out sideSpain diplomatically, as a drunkard and a rescal, as all the army is withFranco and Hitler, wizo have saved Spain and Burope from Communism.PECONSTRUCTION - He says there is a lot being done in the way of reconstruction.In Of jon they have built hundreds of new houses and the town is very much changed.The people who have money are afraid it will lose its value, daily, and eitharbuild or use the money for business.4.3.42.REPORT No.357JCSE FAGOS, a peasant, resident in Cuba for 11 years, returned to Spainin 1940. At that time he was a Franquist. He is very backward and extremelysuspicious. At first to refused to speak, especially when he was told thathe must talk to a journalist. He knots very little, since he lived in a smallvillage in the district of Estrado and only left it to embark. He often mysthat he knows nothing, and can only give information about his village that isnot political. Is a Loderate anti-Falangist, and continues to defend Franco, ofwhom he has a high opinion, in many instances. The first thing he asserts is thatin Spain there is not so much hunger as they say here. There is a scarcitycaused by the war but it is just the same as it is everywhere, those with moneyeat and those without go hungry. It is not true that they requisition thepeasants cros, at least in the part of Spain he knows. He says thateveryone says in Spain that they control the crops, and even if they force them tosell at the standard rate they leave the peasants enough to eat. It is obviousthat everyone makes fun of the order and hides the produce "but it is not thatthey requisition them, but that the Government controls produce and theyhave to sell it at fixed rates." He says that he has a brother in the army andthe soldiers are very well fed. The food is nell prepared but rather scarce.In Estrada they get the kod two regulation loaves just as before the war,but in Coruna tread is scarcer in the barracks. What everybody wants is forthe war to end, anyhow, what is wanted is peace and tranquillity. When askedabout the second front he says everyone is hoping for the English to come andgive orders in his house but when the people are so anxious they want some-thing to happen to change the situation and see if it isproves". On furtherquestioning he confesses that 90% of the population are against Franco- not onhis own account but on account of the hunger and misery there is..There is no repressica. People are only executed legally, through thetribunals.He says that no one wishes Spain to enter the war, and Franco, if he could, woiwould have bean on the other side already, but as he has the Germans on thefrontier he cannot do it". The rich and the nenarchists are discontented, andthere are many people who were deceived and do not like the present regine.Asked whether the people support the Germans of the Allies, he says -some on each side. A little later he says everybody hates the Germans and isafraid of their encroachments except the Balangists.arrive, which is natural. He says he does not want the English to