a text has recently become available of a letter signed 102 Span— ish intellectuals which has been sent to General Franco's deputy, General Munoz Grandes, and his Minister of Information Senor Fraga. The letter declares that accroding to eye-witness roports, a captain of the Spanish fascist security services and a captain tortured many miners in Sama de Loengreo, even castrating a number of them and causing the death of one miner, The letter gives the names and addresses of about a dozen miners, and of two women, and describes the tortures they suffered. Among the 102 signatories are jcademicians like the former Rector of Madrid University, Dr. Lain Intralgo, 8 professors of the university, Prof, Jose-Luis Sureda of Barcelona University, Prof, Ierno Galvan of Salamanca University and the former Dean of Faculty of Political Seienee in Madrid, Dr. Valentin Andres Alverez.
The signatories also include’= number of Spnin's leading writers, poets painters, actors, cinema producers, They demand a full-scale inguiry into their charges, The letter was sent to all foreign news agencies in Madrid and to all correspondents, but although the Spanish press has suppressed it, its contents have become widely known.
based upon a Daily Worker report.