Burgos, Sept. 3.
The Nationalist Government, in an official radio announcement last night, rejected the proposal made by Republican Foreign Minister, Sr. Alvarez del Vayo, that the execution of political prisoners should be suspended on both sides.
'The statement says that, contrary to what had happened in Republican territory, nobody ever had been executed' in Nationalist Spain without regular trial and political opponents had never been tortured. Nationalist Spain, as a sovereign state, would continue to apply Iw as hitherto, the statement adds.—rans-Ocean.
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