ILLEGAL TO BURN FRANCO EFFIGY IN COPENHAGEN
: The Danish government announced November 17 that it would not punish demonstrators in Copenhagen who burned Generalissimo Franco in effigy October 20,
Ambassador Marquess del Romeral of Spain 1 filed ae formal protest at the Foreign Office exvressing his government's: “eoncern" over the. damage done the fascist leader, ~ The demonstration was organized to protest the trial of’ the poet Carlos Alvarez in:Madrid. He faces three years in prison because of a letter he wrote last year against the drumhead trial of Julian Grimau who was later executed. The charge against Carlos Alvarez was issuance of "illegal propaganda."
‘Besides this sentence, Carlos Alvarez faces a new trial before a military courtmartial for the same offense.
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