THE SPANISH PROBLEM

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 58, 6 September 1937, Page 7

THE SPANISH PROBLEM

(To the Editor.) Sir, —After carefully digesting the jftev. Father Higgins's-lecture on the above subject it is to be regretted that, •when the lecturer " calls for justice for the cause of the rebels and those who are aiding them, he is not willing to extend justice to the opposition, it is also a matter for regret that the lecturer, enjoying the fruits of our splendid democracy, should indulge in |a denouncement of England and the splendid pafrt she is playing under. great difficulties. To say that England ftaught the Spaniard to be "foully unjust" to his people, is a statement very Jwide of the mark. It would also be jiutile to convince people of learning ithat Spain is not va backward country. Father Higgins knows perfectly well that the Spanish Government did not get the chance to establish its democratic rule. ■. General Franco saw to that. Also, to say, that if the Government wins it will destroy religion is piere conjecture. The Basques were and still are fervent Catholics, also (just last week mass was celebrated in iMadrid. Why is the Church in Spain divided over the matter? This is a 'question that cannot be lightly passed !pver. The lecturer £.its a great deal of •faith in Portugal's note to the Nonintervention Committee. What a pity jthat he quoted Portugal! If we are -to believe the lecturer, General Franco iis going to destroy Capitalism and Communism. Will the lecturer explain.why Juan March and the other Spanish financiers have . thrown in all their to aid Franco, and how is [Franco going to rehabilitate Spain <the aid of Capitalism or help [from other Powers? It makes one ponder, when we think pt the Crusaders going to crush the > "infidels," and in Spain today the jidescendants of those "infidels" are employed to destroy Spaniards of both sexes and all ages. In conclusion, let me say that Francisco Ferrer did not die in vain, and the upliftment of the Spanish people may yet be an accomplished fact and they may become as fortunate a race as we are who live under the Union Jack. —I am, etc., I ■■ ALBION HOVER.