THE STRUGGLE IN SPAIN
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—NO one can read unmoved the earnest letter of Colonel P. R. Butler. Will you allow me to say that I am not of those who have waved aside the too abundant evidence of " red " atrocities and murders ? I know also personally of cold- blooded and pitiless murders by General Franco's men. My letter was a plea for prayer that the better elements of both sides may be reconciled and be a means of saving their country from the horror of" red "rule as well as from personal tyranny equally fatal to liberty. To refer to Sir Henry Lunn : the numbers of Spaniards wounded and killed by Franco's regiments of fighting Moors do not in the least affect the point I was making, which was that patriots must hate to see their co-religionists or at least their fellow countrymen shot down by oversea Muhammedans and their country overrun by foreigners. If this reasonable supposition is wrong, Sir H. Lunn has written nothing to show it.
I know no better equivalent of the word " Christian " than "Catholic." A. Presbyterian minister lately writing to The Spectator claims this title, all who recite the Apostles Creed claim it, including immortal John Wesley. Why then should it be repudiated by a prominent, but let us hope, not an incorrigible Methodist ?—I am, Sir, yours, &c., R. P. ASHE.
65 Birdhurst Rise, Croydon.
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