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Reel 17427 - Page 1636

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1941/1945

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fra

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From: Madrid (Pietr)
To: Vichy (President Laval)
CROSET

28 June 1944
FAD

/No number

REVISION
3 - part message complete

Part 1

Referring to my telegram No. 424, paragraph 2.

I have the impression, after having conversed
discreetly about it with Count JORDAN, and not without endeavoring
to check his statements, that the affair might be reduced to
this:

Several times since the month of April the Spanish
Government has asked the German military authorities to remove
from the vicinity of the Basque and Catalan frontiers the
"Reds" who are employed in large numbers, it appears, on (?public?)
works in the southwestern part of France,

Part 2

and it
complained recently that nothing has been done about it.

Berlin is supposed to have replied by alleging as
a pretext that, on the one hand, the orders given the Spanish
missions in America were not at all in accord with this anxiety
and, on the other hand, the most efficacious way for Spain to
protect herself from an influx of the "Reds" would doubtless be
to repatriate them, as she had been asked to do for a long time;
thus she herself would be responsible for preventing them from
doing harm.

Part 3

It does not seem, in any case, that it has been a
question of any sort of insistence or injunction on the part of
the Germans, and it is probable that the concentration camps they
are preparing in Catalonia and Navarre are (?asylums?) intended

-continued- Examination Unit,

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