FURTHER SPANISH COMMENTARY Sut,—Personal issues in political discussions are, I
think, generally best ignored ; but as Mr. Walton, in his sparring-match with Professor Pastor, has now twice referred rather pointedly to a supposed change of attitude on my part to the Spanish parties, may I be allowed to say that this attribution is entirely inaccurate? Though I was quoted freely, during the Civil War, by partisans of both Left and Right, I supported neither, believing that neither would give Spain what she needed. I was, for example, and still am, as critical of the Nationalists' treatment of the Catalans and the Basques as of the excesses of the Anarcho-Communists. My attitude to the future of Spain is clearly and fully set out in The Spanish Tragedy (p. 222 ; 6th ed., pp. 245-6), and so far as I am aware, nothing that I have said or written contradicts this.
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