The Archive · 1937

Anti-Franco Plot

Hendaye, July 17.

Details of a reported plot to overthrow the provisional government of Gen. Francisco Franco, were outlined to-day by the loyalist radio station at Santander.

The plot, it was said, was centred at Burgos, Seville and Salamanca, where hundreds of officers and civilians have been arrested on suspicion of complicity, Many have fled to Gibraltar, the report stated.

The plot was ungérstood to have sought the substitution of a mixed military and civilian government for the present military council, and to have been aimed ata rapprochement with the loyalists on the grounds of a "common hatred" of intervening foreign nations.

The Santander station said that one of the leaders named De La Darre had unwittingly revealed the plan, enabling the nationalist authorities to arrest the suspected ringleafers.—United Press.

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