THE SPANISH WAR

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22593, 24 December 1938, Page 6

THE SPANISH WAR

SO TOM EDITOB Or THI PJIXSS. Sir.—l first desire to thajnk you for allowing me the right of reply. Referring to my first letter of November 24, my object was to bring under your notice the significant prominence given to cables or other news in respect to help or assistance from Italy and Germany to Franco In Spain, as agaifist the reticence or silence shown in the way of assistance given to the Red Soviet Government of Spain by the countries of Russia, France, England, America, and Mexico. I mention England as there is now positive proof that she, a non-intervention nation, had also participated with supplying. armaments to the Reds. In any case the sources of supply of necessaries for carrying on the war on behalf of the Reds have been fully double the amount supplied to Franco from Germany and Italy. Not a single German regiment, or even battalion, has been sent from Germany. Further, neither has given of her best to help Franco, for the simple reason that each country reserved the best for its own defence in case of necessity. Many of the armaments captured by Franco from the other side were of a far greater value in make than his own from Italy and Germany, and had he been given only half the assistance in eauipment and armaments, that were bestowed on the Communist Reds, the war would have been over long before now. However, an old saying that "everything comes to those who wait," will, I feel oar-,

tain, come to Franco and Spain. “Thrice Is he armed who hath his quarrel just.” Almighty God will not overlook the inhuman atrocities perpetrated by the “Reds,” in murdering and destroying the homes and churches of helpless and innocent priests and nuns, who give their lives to the work and teaching of His good works. As regards the war, it Is now a wellknown, fact that the whole thing was planned by Russia in the first place, and by far the greater part of the troubles committed, lie at the door of the Government, and not of the rebels. In a crowded cinema in Madrid just before the insurrection some patriotic voices cried, ‘(Long live Spain.” The Reds in the audience shouted: “Down with Spain. Long live Russia.” For years Russian Communism worked systematically for triumph in the Iberian Peninsula. No secret was made of it. The forces of revolution were systematically incited and organised. The Kremlin and the Comintern hoped to make Spain a client State and also a stepping stone to England. This and nothing else was the beginning of the international mischief. When that hope seemed endangered, Moscow poured in arms and supplies for the Reds. That policy, if successful at all, could only promote the break-up of Spain. Remember this—it was not Hitler and the Nazis, it was not Mussolini and his Fascists who plotted to spread their systems to another European country. The Soviet Ambassador himself, Senor Don Moses Rosenberg, is the adviser, patron, and master of that revolutionary camarilla at Valencia, which Is called a Spanish Government. I may here say, too, that the Blum Government of France, both by direct and indirect ways and means, has helped to cover and assist Soviet disturbances In Spain. Some of Monsieur Blum’s colleagues are flaming partisans of the Spanish Left. Restored Spain when its hour comes will not look with love upon the nations who directly or Indirectly helped the Red attempt to destroy its life and soul.— Yours, etc., JAMES HILL. Belfast, December 23, 1938. [This correspondence is now closed/ — Ed, “The Pres*”!