16 MARCH 1945, Page 13

SIR,—May I express my wholehearted agreement with Mr. Loveday's opinion

that Spaniards should be allowed to choose their own Govern- ment without dictation from abroad, because if this had been done instead of allowing Hitler's and Mussolini's troops to interfere, there would now be a Republican Spain instead of a Franco Spain. Having allowed Fascism to be imposed on the Spaniards by force of arms I.think we now owe them a debt which can only be paid off by freeing them of