The Archive · 1939

To Gen. Franco

Economic Mission May View Country's Resources Paris, May 15.

France is preparing a plan to obtain Nationalist Spain's political neutrality in exchange for a large French or joint Anglo-French loan, French financial circles reported last night.

The loan would go toward the reconstruction of Spain. French economic: experts are preparing to undertake an economic survey of Spain in order to determine the exact civil war losses and the potential possibilities of eventually recovering a loan such as it contemplated.—United Press.

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