[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is, indeed, difficult
to see either right or light in the Spanish struggle. Certain fervent Catholics, including his grace the Archbishop of Westminster, Sir H. Lunn and your correspondent, Colonel P. R. Butler, have written strong pro-Franco letters to "the Press," yet none of them seems to notice, or seeks to account for the fact, or what appears the fact to some who like myself have spent a year or so in Spain, that the majority of the hard-working poor, those who are quiet in the land and who cannot justly be called " Reds " incline to the Government side rather than to that of General Franco. Ought not the writers referred to above to think that as patriots the Spanish people should justly resent foreign interference, and as good Catholics should hate to see their fellow-Catholics or at least their fellow-countrymen shot down in thousands by Franco's Mohammedan Moors ?
Should not our prayer be that both sides be reconciled to one another and that, hard as it seems, peacemakers may come forth ard may prevail ?—I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
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