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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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In the Spanish Civil War, Franco's Nationalists in Burgos rejected Madrid's Republican offer for honorable peace negotiations, demanding unconditional surrender to ensure lasting peace through arms. (Datelined Hendaye, France, March 20, 1939.)
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WAR TO THE BITTER END
FRANCO VOW
Madrid Request for 'Honorable Peace' Meets Rebel Rebuff
Hendaye, France, March 20.-
The Spanish Nationalists are reported today to have refused the Republican Government's request for an "honorable peace" and have insisted on Madrid's unconditional surrender in the Civil War.
Dispatches from Burgos, Franco's capital, said his answer to the offer to open peace negotiations broadcast by the Madrid defense council was "surrender."
The official broadcasting station at Burgos declared, "our leader has prepared an army which will carry to the last village of Spain only honorable peace, peace of arms.
This is the only way of making certain war will not flare up again."
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Spain
Event Date
March 20, 1939
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refusal of republican government's request for honorable peace; insistence on unconditional surrender of madrid.
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The Spanish Nationalists refused the Republican Government's request for an honorable peace and insisted on Madrid's unconditional surrender in the Civil War. Dispatches from Burgos indicated Franco's answer to the offer for peace negotiations was surrender. The official broadcasting station at Burgos declared that their leader has prepared an army to carry honorable peace of arms to the last village of Spain to ensure war does not flare up again.