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# 6# HELP GIVEN BY THE FRANQUIST REGIME A'D THE FALANGE TO HITLER.Now and then they send reinforcements to the Division Azul, in groups of a thousand or one thousand five hundred. They say that in order to replace the casualties and the those who return crippled. Even the Falangists themselves say the Russian front is a very serious matter. Those who are recruited to replace losses in Russia are recruited by force, by the process already mentioned. All airmen have to serve some months on the Eastern Front as "training". They say that lately they were training about 150 pilots to send then to Russia. The war factories are workingat high pressure. The Germans are directing the erection" of an aerodrome in the province of Lugo. In Gal cia very few Germans are to be seen. Military instruction is obligatory for boys and youths in the Frente de la Juventud". They also train youths from 15 onwards to serve in aviation. A friend of the informants told them that there passed daly through a city in the North fifty card loaded wit war material in the direction of the French frontier. German submarines refuel at redendeia and Vigo. He says that English seroplanes often make reconnaissance flights over the heroours of Galicia. They aescribe Serrano Suner as the most subservient to the Nazis and in general to the Falangists who have crimes behind them or who have become rich through roubing the peo: le.Those who go to work in Germany are those workers who have nowork, or even if they have any live in the greatest poverty. They believe that by coing to Germany they will be able to solve their economic situation and that of their families. The groups aant are not very large, according to our informants, at least in Galicia. This is understandable because the Germans preier specialists. According to our informants, three workmen came back from Germany who say that in Germany the situation is terrible. They hardly eat, there is great poverty. They have the impression that Germany will not resist long in consequence of the situation there is in the country. They also say that a roup of Spanish workmen were thrown out of the country because they caused trouble".# FRICTION BETWEEN THE RULING CLASSESHe does not know of any dissension in the army except the case of Yague and Queipo, and gives data which is already kn.m. The soldiers in general are against the entry of Spain into the war.... They live in very bad conditions, badly fed, badly clothed and ill-reated by the officers, especially by the recently recruited Falanists. Thay all wish to be demobi ised as soon as possible. They have demobilised the '39 fraft. By their conversation we observe that the soldiers from the "national" and the "Red" zones receive different treatment. In Galicia there are rany soldiers from Cataluna who have already spent several years in the army. They do not make it difficult for youths of military age to leave Sain; they cited their own cases. One of them is 18, the other 24 years old.# THE PEOPLE'S PAST STANCE TO THE WAR AND THE FRANQUIST REGIMEThey say that there is no resistance there at all, because no one can act, and passivity is the opinion and state of and of the people. When we insist they say there have been various tran smashes and some derailments which they think were due to sabotage as well as to the defective material. Everybody knows the British and Soviet war communiques and they are discussed in private conversation. Some people take them down in shorthand and later circulate them. He says that in Vigo there is a secret transmitting station, but it was discovered by the police and all tiose connected with it shot. They were said to belong to the republican Left ("Isquierda Republicans) and among those shot there was one doctor and other intellectuals. He does not know any more details. Wezen complain loudyin queues of the shortage of foodstuffs. He knows because the rumour went round there that Prieto nade a speech in the White House before Roosevelt, and that Roosevelt embraced him saying that the Americas were behind the Spaniards. This speech too is circolating in clandestine copies, cut he never could see one. He says that there is no organised political activity because this is impossible. He tells several jokes which are going the rounds, and quotes this ons: "Recently they made a film called "We Thieves are Hanest Men". Beneath the announcement of this film in Vigo, someone wrote "The Caudillo's Own Fords". Es says the press give most space to the English Far com uniques and the U.S. war news bulletins.# WHAT IS THE ATTITUDE OF THE PEOPLE TOWARDS NATI NAL UNION.Talking of Unity they say textually There, there are no parties, there are only anti-franquista, and all the differences between sections of the Popular Front have disappeared.