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      the only ones to whom the masses (those who have defended the 
      Republic with their arms and their toil) concede the right to 
      be its spokesmen and to represent it. A Republic which needs 
      neither additions nor corrections, because in its significance 
      and its aims there is nothing which cannot be accepted by all 
      Spaniards who have not been blinded by the mad desire to try 
      and impose on the country (illegally and with foreign help) a 
      political regime, approved perhaps by a minority, but profoundly 
      repugnant to the temperament and idiosyncracy of the whole country. 
      Moreover, a regime against which the people would rise en masse 
      simply because it would be imposed on us by foreigners and would 
      symbolise our submission to a foreign power. Against this stands 
      the Republic, displaying a real and a vital characteristic of 
      its own: namely that it is integrally, radically, unyieldingly 
      Spanish, without admitting outside interference from anyone; 
      founded on what in general terms corresponds to the general will 
      of the Spanish nation: a sincerely democratic regime based on 
      the 13 Points in which the Government, from the lips of Dr. Negrin, 
      has summarized its program, and, in which the yearning for justice, 
      culture and well-being of the Spanish peop1e are satisfied. And 
      all this under the sign of reconciliation of all Spaniards for 
      the reconstitution of the country, a reconciliation that is no 
      empty word, since among the 13 Points are two, which have moreover 
      been several times confirmed by Dr. Negrin himself and/ on which 
      it is right that we should insist:` amnesty and plebiscite.
 
      
 
 
London. December 1938.