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Show Vatican Recognizes Spanish Insurgent Regime POPE SWINGS Action Severs Bonds With Government of Madrid VATICAN CITY, Aug. 4 (UP) The Catholic church, openly throwing its world-wide influence influ-ence behind Gene ralisfimo Francisco Franco and his Spanish Span-ish insurgents, definitely ended year of diplomatic confusion and equivocation today by quietly severing its relations with Madrid and publicly rec-cgnizing rec-cgnizing the nationalist government govern-ment of Spain. The Vatican's action was not unexpected because for many months the church has maintained main-tained only nominal formal relations re-lations with the Madrid government govern-ment and has privately supported support-ed ths nationalist cause. Until this week, the Vatican did Dot officially recognize Franco's diplomatic dip-lomatic representative, Pablo Chur-ruca, Chur-ruca, with whom, however, it maintained main-tained a close and cordial, if unofficial un-official relationship. The Vatican officially recognised Luia de Zulueta as being ambassador ambassa-dor from Madrid, but as his nationalist na-tionalist subordinates have barred him from entering the embassy, he has been carried in the Vatican's diplomatic list as "an absent ambassador." am-bassador." The new list, to be issued shortly. Will omit Zulueta's name and carry Churruca's as official charge d'affaires. Spanish quarters believed that the! Vatican soon would name Monsignor Ildebrando Antonlutti as charge d'affaires of the Vatican with the nationalist governing junta. It was Monsignor Antonlutti, now apostolic delegate to Albania, who went to nationalist Spain recently to see General Francisco Franco. MADRID, AugTT (INS) Insurgent Insur-gent advances from Teruel toward the new Madrid-Valencia road at Cuenca came to a dead halt today after one of the most dramatic Insurgent sources said the delay was temporary, and waa called only to permit consolidation of the territory ter-ritory already gained in the rough mountain terrain, where the rebel vanguard has pressed against little opposition to within 30 miles of the last road between Madrid and the aeacoast. Loyalists, however, attributed the halt to a counter-attack launched north of Teruel, where pressure on the wide salient being hewn out by the rebels forced them to slow up their westward push. VALENCIA.-Aug. 4 CP After four consecutive days of cabinet sessions devoted to miliUry and Internal affairs, the Spanish republican repub-lican government has decided to weld IU forces in northern Spain tinder a defense junta. |