Mr. Oliver Stanley Hopes Possible Reprisals For Happy Outcome Reuter learns that the Spanish Republican authorities have approached he British Government on the sub-lect of what reprisals General Franco. the Nationalist leader, may take in the event of the Republican Government surrendering.
The Republican authorities are said to have asked for British assistance in evacuating those "who do not feel covered by General Franco's assurances.'
The British Government is understood to have reserved its reply to these representations, but it is learned that, out of humanitarian considerations, the Government will do what it can to meet the request of the Republicans for assistance.
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