THE BASQUE CHILDREN
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Will you allow me to correct a mistake in a lett& in your issue of July 3oth, on the removal of the Bisque children from Bilbao, in . which I stated that " unlike some of his champions in this country, General Franco does not seem to have protested " ? The Marquis del Moral has courteously called my attention to the fact that General Franco did Proles!, most vigorously. It appears from correspondence with the British Government, of which the- Marquis sends me a copi, that the General proposed an alternative scheme of a zone of refuge in Red Territory, under the auspices of the Inter- national Red Cross. I regret my mistake,. though, in fact, it led me to draw a conclusion favouiable to General-Fiats:9, whose personal chivalry and humanity I do not '-6i1 in question.
But my letter was less concerned with the special case of Bilbao than with the broader issues of neutral intervention in the cause of humanity in warfare, on behalf of phildren and the infirm. I may say that the question is receiving. consideration by the appropriate authorities.—I am, Sir, your
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