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from 1941 to 1945 the Blue Infantry Division, the Spanish Legion of Volunteers, and the Salvador Air Squadron fought against Soviet Russia on the Eastern Front. Second, in the summer of 1940 Spain seized Tangier in breach of international statute, and as a result of Spain maintaining a large army in Spanish Morocco large numbers of Alhed troops were immobilized in North Africa. "'(c) Incontrovertible documentary evidence establishes that Franco was a guilty party, with Hitler and Mussolini, in the conspiracy to wage war against those countries which eventually in the course of the world war became banded together as the United Nations. It was part of the conspiracy that Franco's full belligerency should be postponed until a time to be mutally agreed upon. ' "The General Assembly, " convinced that the Franco Fascist Government of Spain which was imposed by force upon the Spanish people with the aid of the Axis Powers and which gave material assistance to the Axis Powers in the war, does not represent the Spanish people, and by its continued control of Spain is making impossible the participation of the Spanish people with the peoples of the United Nations in international affairs ; " Recommends that the Franco Government of Spain be debarred from membership in international agencies established by or brought into relationship with the United Nations, and from participation in conference or other activities which may be arranged by the United Nations or by these agencies, until a new and acceptable government is formed in Spain. "The General Assembly further, " desiring to secure the participation of all peace-loving peoples, including the people of Spain, in the community of nations, and inasmuch as the United Nations, by the action they took in San Francisco, in Potsdam, in London, and more recently in Lake Success, have in fact collectively refused to maintain relations with the Franco regime, does hereby recommend that the members of the United Nations take individually the same attitude they have taken collectively and refuse to maintain diplomatic relations with the present Spanish regime. " The Assembly further recommends that the States members of the Organization report to the.Secretary-General and to the next Assembly what action they have taken in accordance with this recommendation.'' Before the resolution was put to the vote, a vote was taken on the Colombian resolution. This resolution was voted on paragraph by paragraph, and rejected (New Zealand voting against). The text proposed by the sub-committee was then voted upon. The preamble and the first recommendation relative to the exclusion of the Franco Government from international agencies was adopted (New Zealand voting affirmatively). The United States representative (Senator Connally) then moved that the following paragraph be substituted for the penultimate paragraph of the Committee's draft: — " Recognizing that it is for the Spanish people to settle the form of their Government; places on record its profound conviction that in the interest of Spain and of world co-operation the people of Spain should give proof to the world that they have a Government which