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# 8/4612Lister is known and has a following in Galicia. The politicians with most prestige are Prieto and Asana and Negrin, although Negrin is the most hated by the Falangists".## FUTURE PROSPECTS.He thinks of the Republic as the Regime to substitute for Fascism, but without a revolution, and he immediately adds that the Republic will come because when the Germans are at their weakest the whole people will revolt and avenge the crimes of the Falangists. The people's blood rises when thay see those who assassinated their relations dressed up in blue shirts. The Palange consists only of professional assassins and robbers. Those who wear the shirt can be recognised by their faces. Those who joined the Falange at first now do not want to know anything about it, and do not want anyone to wear the shirt. There is friction between Requetes and Falangiste. The people hate the Requetes less than the Falangists. They say that the schools teach only militarism and religion. There are many little boys who can hardly read, but who can speak of military operations with maps, artillery and aviation. A teacher who was dismissed and came back to his post, told our informants that the Ministry constantly sent them boks of military tactics, so that they could teach them to the children. The summer camps for children consist of sanding boys to camp and teashing them drill.## GENERAL SITUATION OF THE PEOPLE.They spoke of the terrible poverty endured by the people, and the high price of food; wages have hardly been raised in comparison with those paid under the Republic. The Committees of Supply get hold of agricultural products and only leave a small quantity per person for the whole year's supply. Already in their village the Falange had listed the crop although they had not yet requisitioned it, which they had already done in other parte of Galicia. Falangists speculate in foodstuffs, selling them at high prices and so get rich. He says that in Figo a large quantity of rice went bad and had to be thrown into the sea because they would not sell it to the people at lower prices. The rationing is quite inadequate. They were a whole year without seeing olive oil. Maturally on the Black Market it could be bought at 50 pts and more. In a year they only had bread twice. A very small meal in a restaurant costs 16 pts. Two courses and dessert 25 pts. One of them was charged 75 pts. for eating and sleeping in a pension in Vigo one day. A pair of shoes costs 25 pts., a poor suit 500, a dosen eggs 18 or more pts. The people hate the Committees of Supply used by the Falangists to make themselves rich. They say that there is the greatest immorality in all official organisations and everyons steals.In the prisons there are still many people. They treat the prisoners very bedly. In the prison of Oviedo, which has a capacity for 600 there are more than 5.500 prisoners. There are batallions of forced labour (workers they call them); they grant some people conditional liberty but they send them to districts where they know no one and where they die of hunger.Generally these three young men have great confidence in the victory over Hitler, and say Germany may break up this very year.## REPORT No, 355Information volunteered by an ex-Consular official of the Cuban Government in Spain, who arrived on the "Marques de Comillas" on the 25 th of July 1942. The subject is a person of quite good economic position. He is the sons of Spaniards and owns some properties in Asturias. He went as Consul to after Fram.cofs_troops_had taken penesssion of it. A man of moderate views, politically of the persuasion that was regnant there at the moment, he honestly believed, doubtless as a result of Falangist propaganda in America, that Franquist Spain was a paradise". Later he had the opportunity of experiencing what Franqui sa represented, and still represents for Spain, and owing to his honourable behaviour as Consul he was often insulted and was even threatened with expulsion. He was closely connected with of icials of the Fascist Regine and with Falangists in high positions. His term of office, to use his ow expression, was more sufessful through his friends than owing to his position.