[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sitc,-On page 275 of
your issue or August I4th,' you add as footnote to a letter from a correspondent the following words :
"The Catholics in Spain are divided. The National Basque Party, for example, which is supporting the Government, is mainly Catholic."
This is typical of the half-truths which have' done so much to mislead the British public as to the trend of events in Spain: • The Madrid Government offered the' Basques a separate Government if they would side with them. The more ignorant Basques, deceived by a promise which the Government would obviously never have fulfilled, thereupon sided with Madrid. Those among them, however, who Were devout Catholics, put their religious beliefs before their Nationalist aspirations and sided with the " Rebels " in their Crusade for the purification of life in Spain,—Yours faithfully, [No doubt the Basques are not 100 per cent. for either side. But there is nothing in this letter to cast doubt on the general accuracy of our statement. —En. The Spectator.]
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