TOPICAL AGAIN
“THE SPANISH PATRIOT” (By Air Mail—From Cur Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 18th February. In Lower Marsh, in the unsalubrious region of Lambeth, not so far from the Archbishop ,of Canterbruy’s > palace, is a tavern with the name “The Spanish Patriot.” This is yet ! another monument to history’s engagI ing habit of repeating itself. It dates I back to 1833, and another Spanish civil war. A century ago the internecine quarrels of the Dons interested our countrymen-just as vigorously as they apparently do now. The Lambeth tavern was christened at a moment when feeling ran high in this country, and many stout-hearted Englishmen were proposing to intervene in Spain. The Royalist volunteers ; were eventually disarmed after some bitter fighting and bloodshed in Madrid. and a few of them became migrants to this country. To-day the Spanish Patriot finds itself right in the topical limelight again, and no doubt its bar parlour is enlivened by hot disputes as to the : rights and | wrongs of Franco and the Spanish i Reds,
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 17 March 1937, Page 7
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169TOPICAL AGAIN Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 17 March 1937, Page 7
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