MURDER OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN
NURSES’ PLEA TO MRS CHAMBERLAIN LONDON, 22nd January. Five nurses who devoted themselves to the cause of the Spanish loyalists and were evacuated from Spain with the foreign legionnaires, went lo Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country house, by car to-day in the hope of presenting a letter to Mrs Chamberlain appealing to her lo arouse Englishwomen against the murder of Spanish women and children by foreign Powers. The police guard stopped them and advised them to clear off, saying that they should know better. The letter, therefore, was not presented but will be posted. A former Postmaster-General. Mr H. B. Lees-Smith, speaking at Cardiff today, expressed the opinion that, if the
rebels are victorious in Spain, Signor Mussolini will take a chance from which a European war will result.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 24 January 1939, Page 5
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