EFFECTS OF THE DEPARTURE FROM FRANCE OF INDALECIO PRIETO

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02040494
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• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2019
• Case Number: F-2018-02079
• Publication Date: December 14, 1950

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SUBJECT Effects Effects of the Departure from France
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1 The departure of Indalecio PRILTO Tuero for Cuba was interpreted in (b)(1)
Spanish Socialist circles in France as desertion of the anti�FRANCO (b)(3)
cause, according to the Cenetista Jose E, LEIVA.* The PRILTO failure,
the French police action against Spanish Communists, and the UN vote
in favor of FRANCO, all have contributed to the growth in the Socialist
rank and file of a tendency towards rapprochement with the Communists,
LLIVA stated in early November 1950. PRILTOts departure, according to
LLIVA, also has brought out into the open enmities within the Socialist
Executive Committee which hitherto had been concealed for the sake of
unity.
2� The Socialist 7,xecutive Committee inside Spain, through a letter addressed
to Secretary General Rodolfo LLOPIS Ferrandiz, has severely criticized
the exiles for concessions alleeedly made to the Yelnarchists. - The interior
group, LIVA stated, while indicating willingness to make conprorniscs for
a raid solution of the Spanish problem, felt that the exiles had gone
too far in the direction of surrender to the ilonarchy.
3. Gregorio GONZALEZ, former collaborator with Antonio TRIGO Mairal on the
interior Socialist Lxecutive Comnittee, in mid�August criticized the exile
party for obstruction of Socialist collaboration in the Coeite interior de
Coordinacion. The pIC-, GONZALEZ said, was the logical consequence Of the
Fight Point Pact in the view of the Socialists inside Spain, who felt that
the principal problem was the overthrow of FRANCO. The interior Socialists,
through the CIC, were not negotiating blindly with the Monarchists, GONZALEZ
insisted, but were assured of the Ministries of War and Interior aD1 control
of other key organisms to prevent "Franquism without FRANCO." The concern
of the Socialists outside Spain, G=ALLZ said, was first with the personal
triumph -of PRILTO and next with jockeying for position to inherit PRIETOts
power without the cohesive influence of PRIETOts personality, the party
would be split by dissension and by a struggle for supremacy among Trifon
GOVIZ San Jose, LLOPIS and Wenceslao CARRILLO Alonso. The exiled leaders
all were agreed, however, according to GONZALZ, on the subordinrtion
the party inside Spain. (IDX1 )
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4. GONZAILZ, who in August 1949 was forced to flee Spain to avoid arrest,
said that he had received financial aid from Jose CALVItO Ozores, the
administrator of various properties removed from Spain by the republicans
during the Civil tar.** CALVIII0 Ozoros, himself a Socialist, reportedly
gives funds to exiled Socialists on the recommendation of LLCM
A Reuters dispatch from Havana published in the
11:5776X-Timcs ol 26 November 1950 reported that PRIETO had announced
Ere-Racnation as President of the PSOE and Vice-i'resident of the UGT,
as a result of the UN action on Spain.
reported some of the financial activities of CALVIN() Ozores.
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