Basques in Spain ends state monopoly pledge to of radio news broadcasts From Harry Debelius are expected to be revoked after end \aolent Madrid, Oct 2 the next Cabinet meeting. Most stations, however, will The state monopoly of radio 6 continue to carry the official actions news:broadcasts will end here news bulletins for the time tomorrow, according to reports beirg, since they lack news- From Harry Debelius gathering facilities of their own. Madrid, Oct 2 published in Madrid this week• But the SER network, which One of the military factions end. is privately owned and covers a of the Basque separatist move• For the first time since the large part of the country, will ment ETA has given up armed Civil War, Spanish radio net• begin broadcasting its own news struggle and renounced the works and stations will no bulletins tomorrow. practice of collecting " revolu• longer be obliged to link up tionary taxes " from business• with the state-run Radio Another major network, Radio men in the region, a Basque National twice a day to trans• Cadena Española, will continue newspaper reported today. mit news broadcasts prepared to make the twice-daily con• ! nexion with Radio Nacional, but The newspaper Egvn, pub• by the state corporation. lished in Bilbao, carried . an will offer news bulletins of its interview today with leaders of In General Franco's day, own in addition. one of the three armed factions those were the only news broad• There are 156 radio stations bf the guerrilla movement. casts which could be heard in in Spain, the majority of which They were reported to have this country apart from pro• belong to the state. • said: "The Basque revolution, grammes originating outside Apart from Radio Nacional and the working class, need a Spain. Since the general's ana its commercial subsidiary party which will be in the van• death' the Government has be• Radio Continental, the principal guard and which will be iden• come more tolerant about the networks are Radio Cadena tified i na clear way and which broadcasting of news material Española, which includes the can consequently blaze the trail prepared by local stations or Mations that used to belong to for the policy to be followed at private networks. However, the (he now dismantled Francoist all levels ". decrees granting the news National Movement : Cadena de monopoly to the state are still Emisoras Sindicales, which The ETA spokesman added | on the statute books. used to belong to the now that, as a result, they would no The Madrid - newspaper ripfunct state-nm trade unions; longer engage in violent activi• SER; and Radio Popular, ties, but would instead attack Diario~16 reported yesterday Española that the Government has owned by the Roman Catholic on the political front " in sup• Church. port of the class struggle". advised managers of radio sta• tions that it will no longer The spokesman were quoted The news broadcasts of as saying that they had given enforce the obligation to make Spain's two television channels up extortion for two reasons. the twice-daily link-up as from lemain, however, under state tomorrow. The existing decrees control. One was that the divisions within ETA made it impossible to control the " tax collection " programme. Even the police New Bill to used this method to increase confusion, the ETA leaders said, as well as some private entitle individuals not connected with ETA who were simply making money. Spaniards to The other reason, according to the ETA spokesman was that legal aid " when the oligarchy refuses because it can afford to take From Our Own Correspondent necessary security precautions, Madrid, Oct 3 then the tax is levelled on The Spanish Government middle management—on people today introduced a Bill to give who often consider themselves Spaniards the right to demand abertzale (Basque patriarchs). the presence of a lawyer as . The tax has become some• soon as they are arrested by thing to be levied on only a the police and before they are few representatives of the small TRANSICIÓN charged. and medium level of the At the same time the Gov• Basque bourgeoisie." ernment submitted to the Cor• The statement means only tes its proposal for a new law that the practice of extracting on amnesty. The amnesty ques• " taxes " from wealthy people tion is linked to attempts by in the Basque country is re• the Centre Democratic Union nounced by one of the at least (UCD), the party of Señor three branches of ETA. Suáres, the Prime Minister, to Catalan triumph, page 6 win the support of the Basque and Catalan home-rule block in Parliament on other issues. In view of the divisions within his own party, Señor Suárez is though to be eager to bring one or more Basque or Catalon ministers into his Gov• ernment to form a coalition ! with enough votes in the Cortes i to guarantee a majority even if I some of the UCD factions break Fundación ; away. ! Señor Antonio Fonitan, presi• dent of the Senate, criticized in Seville on Sunday the proposal of Señor Santiago Carrillo, the Spanish Communist Party leader, for the formation of a " government of concentration," or coalition government, incor• porating the Communists. " A political system can only be consolidated! "when it offers alternatives. Furthermore it is not possible because neither the UCD nor the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Parity, the principal parliamentary opposi• tion) wants it. WEST EUROPE Señor Carrillo Fresh start for Catalan region departs ^ for London From Our Correspondent Struggle looming over Madrid, Oct 2 Señor Santiago Carrillo, the Spanish Communist Party Generalität powers leader, left Madrid for London today to attend the Labour From William Chisiett ties powers including control Party conference in Brighton as Madrid, Oct 2 of law and order, education, an observer. public health, transport and He departed in an atmos• Thirty-seven years, ago this justice. It had its own Parlia• phere of controversy. He has month (October 15, 1940) ment and certain legislative been the centre of discussion in Señor Lluis Companys,.Presi• powers. Many Catalans would Communist circles in Spain and dent of the Generalitat, the }ike to see: the new statute elsewhere because of his tough Catalan autonomous govern• embracing similar powers and criticism of Moscow and his ment, was shot after the this will bé a contentious issue. repeated claims that com• Gestapo handed him over to Señor Tarradellas, now aged munism should respect national General Franco. 78, will now return in triumph independence and should not be •i Fo.ur days ago the Generali• to preside over the new Gene• an instrument of policy of the tat, under the presidency of ralitat and form a government, Soviet or any other Govern• Señor Josep TairradeHas, who which will have little more than ment. fled Barcelona with Señor symbolic powers until full de• Companys in 1939 at the end of Just before leaving, he made tails are worked out. Señor other surprisingly bourgeois the civil war to exile in Frace, Tarradellas was prime minister was reestablished by royal statements at a rally of his of the Generalitat for part of party attended by about 10,000 decree. the civil war and was then people in the Spanish capital appointed President-in-exile in Phrases like "Visca Cata• He had kind words for King 1954. It is with his return that lunya" (Catalan for " Long live the problems will start. '"•..{" • Juan Carlos, without whom, he Catalonia") were liable to said, " the shooting would bnng imprisonment in Franco's Señor Suárez skilfully manoe• already have begun". He was day. Catalan culture and lan• uvred the negotiations for referring to possible right-wing the Gerieralitat's return by Española guage were suppressed and reaction to tension and those favouring autonomy initially going over the heads disturbances in the country. treated like criminals. of the Catalan politicians elected in the June 15 general Now Señoír Suárez, the election on an autonomy plat• Spanish Prime Minister, has form. He started secret talks slaughtered another of the with Señor Tarradellas, who «acred cows of the former later brought in the leaders of regime the Catalan political parties. The Generalitat dates from 3359, before Spain was a uni• Señor Tarradellas used his fied country and regions like position, some say in an authoritarian way, to act as the "atalor.ia enjoyed their own intermediary between the Gov• rights. It was destroyed in ernment and the Catalan 1714 by the troops of Philip V parties. in the war of the Spanish Suc• cession, and lay dormant until Socialists and Communists, the establishment of the who for the time being are Second Republic in 1931. It shelving the republican issue, will now start, as the victors of then lasted until the end of the the June 15 election in Cata• civil wai. lonia, to try to control the The Generalitat has always Generalitat. Señor Suárez's been an emotive issue for Cata• ruling Democratic Centre Union lans. When Catalonia, which did badlv in Catalonia and it comprises four provinces, remains to be seen to what celebrated its Diada (national extent Señor Tarradellas is his day) last September 11, more man. ... than a trillion people paraded SeñorTRANSICIÓN Tarradellas, a con• through Barcelona waving the vinced republican, has avoided red and yellow Catalan flag and the issue in nesotiations. Bar• shouting, to the rhythm of celona, however, is still a beeping car horns, " Libertad, remiblican stronghold. Amnistía y Estatut de Auto• Municipal elections are nomía " (freedom, amnesty and planned for later this vear or statute of autonomy). earlv next year and the outcome Catalans, the most European- in Catalonia will greatly influ• minded of Spaniards, now have ence the membership of the back some of their freedom.