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The Vice Consul at Valencia (Wallner) to the Secretary of State
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23. Workmen’s National Defense Council was formed with the adhesion of the army and all political and syndical groups except the Communists; Miaja’s assumption of the Presidency assures it of full moral powers to sue for peace.
[Page 760]The principal Communist leaders are dead or in jail after the complete crushing of an attempted coup d’état which apparently assumed serious proportions in Madrid and Alicante as well as Cartagena but of which details are not available because of strict censorship and unsatisfactory telephone communications.