 On 27 February Chamberlain's Britain and Daladier's France officially recognised the Franco regime.On 28 March 1939, with the help of pro-Franco forces inside the city (the "fifth column" General Mola had mentioned in propaganda broadcasts in 1936), Madrid fell to the Nationalists.The next day, Valencia, which had held out under the guns of the Nationalists for close to two years, also surrendered.