DANES PROTEST MADRID TRIAL OF SPANISH POET
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 4 -- The authorities announced here yesterday that the organizers of an anti-Franco demonstration in which an effigy of the Spanish fascist dictator was burned will be placed:on trial. The charge is "insulting" Franco.
The demonstration was staged in front of the Spanish Embassy to protest the trial of Carlos Alvarez in Madrid. The Spanish poet was eharged with issuing “illegal propaganda" because he wrote a letter of protest May 10, 1963, against the trial of Communist leader Julian Grimau who was later sentenced to death and’ executed, The prosecution demanded a fine of 50,000 pesetas [about $860] and three years in-prison for the poet when he summed up October 13, —
[It was reported from Madrid November 9 that in addition to a sentence of "three years and two months in prison" for having published a letter abroad calling the trial of Julian Grimau'a "masquérade," a military court will now try him for “insulting the:army."]
The Copenhagen protest demonstration was sponsored by the Young Conmunt st - League. and the Young Soolalist Forum. Some 500° turned - out. ne ,
In Madrid the Spanish Foreign Minister lodged a protest with Danish “Ambassador Sigurd Christensen and in Copenhagen the Spanish ~ chargé dtaffaires protested to the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Danish Ministry followed up by demanding that the Minis~ try of the Interior investigate the matter, particularly the -inability of the Danish police to prevent the crowd from burning an effigy of Franco,
The latest demonstration follows last summer's campaign here — for a boycott on tourist travel to Spain, This was sponsored by the Komiteen Spanien Frit [Committee for a Free Spain].
Around 10,000 posters were put up in all parts of Copenhagen
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and some provincial towns. The slogan was "Boycott Trips to Franco's Spain.”