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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (14531)	9/17/1999 12:37:00 PM
From: MNI	Respond to of 17770

pardon, you use too much slang for my limited language skills. ?dill? ?kook? and, why not a bolshie from bruxelles? (LOL) I was surprised by your focus in #14526, and its' repetition in #14528. Wouldn't it have fitten better in your frame of mind to assume the following four-fold scenario: - Franco saw Britain and Germany as the allies that had brought him to power - once war erupted between those, he didn't know whom he should decide in favor, so stayed neutral - Franco was aware of his military weakness (o.k., you stated that) throughout war, and also of his slim chances of winning anything of his own (despite, in the beginning and in the end of any war it may pay out to enter it on the winners' side) - later into the war the Western allies secretly promised Franco complicitiy to hold his dictature in good outside conditions if he abstained from entering war despite any admonitions from the fascist allies, which deal he accepted as the most comfortable one? Again, I don't hold any of above opinions and have no information to back them up, but I thought it would fit into what you projected from your hearty book. Regards, MNI.

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (14531)	9/18/1999 8:39:00 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Thank you for thinking I am not a dill. I am a lot of things, but certainly not a dill. <g> Of course I don't really think you're a bolshie, but to buy into the notion that the Spanish Civil War was fought by noble democratists against evil fascists is bolshie propaganda. The only fascist forces allied with Franco were the Falangists. The Carlists were reacting to the religious persecution that occurred after Republican laws of 1931 were passed. Franco stood for nation and continuity of tradition. The International Communists and their cohorts were little more than bloodthirsty hoodlums. The mass murder of priests and nuns should give people a clue as to what the war was really about. Viva Franco! Arriba Espana!