Chief Rabbi Leon Jalfon, president of the Rabbinical Court of Tetuan, Spanish Morocco, today cabled Generalissimo Francisco Franco a message of congratulations on the Rebel capture of Lerida. “In the name of the High Rabbinical Court and in my own name, sincere felicitations on the occasion of the capture of Lerida,” the message said, “with fervent wishes for the ultimate triumph of the glorious Nationalist movement.”
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