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The new Defence Coüncil indicates that Communist elements have been thrown out but the broadcast statements of its leaders indicate determination to continue fighting, unless the Nationalists give conditions for surrender, which they hitherto have refused.
As both General Casado and Gen ere) Miaja are military men, fully aware that their defence must collapse before a Nationalist offense ive, it is thought here that the Council has been formed as an organizing body to formulate plans for ultimate surrender.
The general feeling in Burgos is that the balance in Madrid is now swaying between anarchy and an orderly surrender, with the bias towards the latter.—Reuter.
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