LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
GENERAL FRANCO'S RECORD
SIR,—In Second Thoughts on Spain in the Spectator of April 29th you speak of "the plain fact that since 1945 Spain. has shown herself as peace- loving as any nation in the world." Surely' no particular encomium is due to her for that, for since 1945 the world -has been at peace. What does merit our commendation—if not, indeed our gratitude—is that she remained at peace, not since 1945, but befori 1945 when the world was at war and she resisted the blandishments of Hitler and the Duce. Had she yielded to them and allowed Spain to be overrun by Germany, and Gibraltar seized, it is only possible to speculate as to what the consequences would have been. Further, we should surely bear in mind that the rejec- tion of the Axis proposals was to be ascribed to the obduracy of the Generalissimo, whose regime you characterise as "repugnant to every lover of freedom." Whether in fact his regime is as repugnant to freedom- lovers as you believe it to be is also questionable. Those who know what they are talking about in regard to Spanish affairs—Dr. Halliday Sutherland, for instance—have a very different opinion. With your sub- mission that "external intervention in favoill. of this or that party would differ little from aggression" we all agree.—I am, Sir, your obedient
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