Report on Spain, October 1946 |
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Page 19 - Madrid doctor or lawyer who had a villa of four rooms and bath and a garden as big as three handkerchiefs, who saw his house occupied by landworkers, by no means houseless and by no means hungry, who came to harvest his crop: ten men to do the work of one, and to stay in his house till they had finished. It was the secretary of the local gardeners...
Page 19 - Portela, was assassinated. On his deathbed he made a pathetic request: that no inquiry should be made on the cause of his death since punishment of the murderer could but increase the country's unrest. The palace of Gandia in Madrid was occupied by a Left-wing organization and the red flag hoisted over it. The country had entered into a plainly revolutionary phase. Neither life nor property were safe anywhere. It is sheer prejudice to try to explain matters with parrot cries on variations of the...
Page 17 - The revolt of 1934 is unpardonable. The decision of the President in calling the CEDA to share in the Government was not only unimpeachable, not only unavoidable, but long overdue. The argument that Senor Gil Robles intended to bring in Fascism was both hypocritical and demonstrably untrue. It was hypocritical because everybody knew that the Socialists of...
Page 17 - Gil Robles meant to destroy the Constitution by violent means, the defeat of the rebellion of 1934 gave him a golden opportunity to do so - and he did not take it'.74 In retrospect it seems possible that three years of civil war might have been avoided if Gil Robles and Franco had not clung so firmly to legality in 1935. However, it was not until after February 1936, with Largo Caballero's socialists...
Page 37 - States could not permit any nation, which might in the future attack either North or South America, to control the West Coasts of Europe and Africa, or the waterways to the Atlantic or the islands of the Atlantic.
Page 19 - It was not only the owner of thousands of acres granted his ancestors by King So-and-So whose house was invaded and whose cattle...
Page 17 - Gil Robles issued a /statement on behalf of his party, bowing before the will of the Nation, asking for equal treatment for all parties, and offering his party's cooperation in maintaining public order. Azana addressed a statesmanlike appeal to the Nation in a broadcast on February %Qth.
Page 14 - Communism is intrinsically perverse and it cannot be admitted that those who wish to save Christian civilisation can collaborate with it on any ground.
Page 25 - Spaniards — why they were for or against one or the other of the two parties which are fighting against each other in Spain, some would speak of their democratic principles, or...
Page 33 - So that all the secret communications received by the Republic from abroad were known sooner to the Russian Embassy than to the Spanish Government itself.