Spanish Civil War
Sir, —British policy in the Spanish civil war was not a “mere ideological gesture,” to use the words of your reviewer of “The Civil War In Spain.” The wise statesmanship of the Foreign Minister, Mr Anthony Eden, directed the Royal Navy to an active humanitarian and honest “non-intervention” task, and while the totalitarian states of the Left and Right pursued their ideological ends with cruel disregard for the Spanish people, Britain saved thousands of lives. Serving in H.M.S. Fearless on the Biscay coast of Spain, I participated in the life-saving exchanges of non-combatants, arranged with great difficulty between Bilbao (Republican) and San Sebastian (Carlist). Except for the gratitude of the Spanish people thus saved, many of them children, Britain never got the credit she deserved in that ideological prelude to the Second World War.—Yours, etc., FLAG-DECK. April 20, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31660, 22 April 1968, Page 10
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