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Other Editor, Than Ours
PLOTS IN SPAIN.
Christian Science Monitor.)


Few countries have more individual Of doing
things than has Spain political election. for in
stance anywhere else quite like election in Spain
Spanish political crisis is equally distinctive and
plots in Spain" is a phrase rapidly coming 20
a significance all Of course, that
in Spain. German plots and intrigues, real
enough and serious enough. but simply that the
Spanard has curiousy intense of taking his
affairs The latest is always the most astound-
ing that happened. Now. at last he says,
I'VE have reached the limit; now, last will drastic
action be taken the authorities now, last the
world will that Spain will act and act promptly
Then immediately follow mass meetings, wonderful
gala Everybody takes part in them. almost
everybody speaks them; the newspapers ring next
day with the accounts OF them, and that is generally
the end of the matter at rate Of that phase of
Nevertheless no one will for this reason be led to
underestimate the importance Of the revelations Of the
German intrigue in Spain which have recently been
made. To those who have followed political events in
Spain during the last three and half years with
care these revelations made by the anarchist Miguel
Pascal in FL Sol to the German propaganda, sub
sidized organized by the German embassy in Mad
rid came as no surprise II has long been well known
that Germany organized Spain she has organized
practically every other country in the world for the
purposes OF propaganda for the purpose or ahordng
the of the Fatherland by the
thousand and methods with which the world today
is all too familiar
Thus t. recall only one instance The great strike of
just a year which designed completely to
paralyze the manufacturing and producing activities
of the country. is generally admitted to have been
effort, a grand scale, by the German prop
agandiss 20 prevent Spain from aording such help
strike which first really opened the Of the people
10 what going
This, however is only instance out OF many The
German organization of the press in Spain has, from
the first remarkable, and the light OF recent
revelations. difficult the hand OF the
German propagandist in the attitude taken up by
sections of the press practically every mat
ter of public importance since the outbreak Of the
war The calm, almost busnesslike, revelations OF
Miguel Pascal afford. for the first time, the fun
PLANTATION OF many incidents in recent Spanish his
tory and whether it is an anarchist plot in Barcelona
local general strike, carefully organized and
nationwide attack Spanish statesman all have
strings leading back TO the German embassy in Madrid
The revelations being made at truly interest
ing time. The formation Of really great coalition
ministry. weeks seemed 20 indicate that
Spain last awakening to the gravity Of the sit
uation and recognition of the urgent necessity of
doing something than enjoy it. The German
ambassador, the Prince de RatibOr however still
cupies the embassy, and meanwhile by day every
Spanard in his morning papers accounts of how
this embassy during the last three years, has been
endeavoring all occasions stir difficulties Of
the most serious kind for the country to which its
chief is accredited.
No other nation would. of course. dictate
to Spain how she should act. Spain, however. cannot
complain If other countries Judge her by her actions