THE TREE OF. GERNIKA [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
SIRS I very much regret that as the result of drawing a mistaken inference from two passages in Mr. George Steer's book, The Tree of Gernika, which I -reviewed in The Spectator of February nth, I was led to write that Mr. Steer made the cause of the Basques his own "and even fired a shot or two on its behalf." I understand from Mr. Steer that this inference is entirely mistaken, and that there is no truth whatever in the statement that he at any time departed from his duties as a journalist and took an active part in the fighting. I hasten to express my regret for having given the statement currency, and hope that this letter will make it perfectly clear that the inference I drew does not correspond with fact.—Yours, &c.,
J. H. P. MARKS.
[We desire to add an expression of our regret that in the circumstances indicated above currency was given to an inaccurate statement in our columns.—EDITOR, The SpectatorJ
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