The Washington times., 1936-10-10

1t took q
Homer to des-
cribe the siege Edwin c. Hill
of Troy. Remember the Alamo"
was the cry by which an empire
was wrested from Mexico. Re
member the Alcazar!" is not un.
likely to be the cry which shall
decide the destiny Of Spain for
years to come.
I believe that we all lived IN
spirit in old Toledo during the
10 days of the siege.
We may have favored one side
or the other. Our spirits may
have been within the old walls and
suffering there with the heroic
1900: our spirits may have been
outside the walls helping TO SEND
10000 screaming shells against the
living rock on the hill.
ALAMO AND ALCAZAR
The siege Of the Alamo lasted
IS days. The siege Of the Alcazar
lasted II days.
At the Alamo 1t was a case OF
100 Texans against 1000 regulars
of the army of Santa Anna. On
the 23d of February, 1886, the lit
tie band led by Col. B. Travis,
James Bowie and Davy Crockett
began its last stand in the old
Mission San Antonio de Valerd,
called the Alamo" from the Span
ish word for cottonwood, in a grove
of which it stood.
They fought until the 9Th Of
March, until a breach had been
made in the walls, until their am
munition had run out.
And then they died, the SUI
vivors Of this conflict, in a mas
sacre ordered by Santa Anna.
At the Alcazar it was a we'll
equipped, trained band Of soldiers,
the West Point cadets Of Spain.
who held off the unorganized
thousands Of the popular front.
Cannon, dynamite and gasoline
could not diSlodge them.
But hunger soon would have
conquered had not the fezzeS Of
the Moors and the caps Of the
legionnaires appeared over the
the crest of the hills above Toledo
on that seventy-firSt day Of the
siege.
I would have preferred the Al
cazar to remain as the Old World
Castle of the Moors, the Romans
and the Spaniards, the shining
mark of a grand and colorful old
city, a place where I had moved
through in the sun and studied
a Spain I had learned to love.
Will it ever be the same old
Spain?
SWEDISH GOVERNMENT
It should interest us to know
that Sweden has just had its cleo
ton, returning control of parlia.
ment to the Socialists and putting
the AgrarianS out of power.
The disciple of Marxism, Per
Albin, become the premier. King
Gustav remains on the throne and
the SwedeS continue as a capital.
istic nation.
Why should it interest you to
any extent?
Because it is so interesting to
President Roosevelt that he sent
special commission over there
to see what it was all about. He
as much as said that he was great
~ intrigued by a state wherein
one found a monarchy, a parlia-
ment controlled by Socialists, and
a system of capitalism in full
swing.
OF course, the President has
said that he is opposed to any
alien forms for the United States,
and I imagine that Sweden is still
alien, although it is a country
with which we have always have
had the most cordial relations,
and the Swedes are a people for
whom We always have had the
greatest admiration.
But as for attempting to apply
their form Of politics and their
economic system to the United
States, that is another story.
When the Brain Trust at Wash.
ington applied production control
to agriculture-and, by the way,
Sweden has production control in
its industrial life they forgot
about the jobs they were destroy
ing.
So it is that when they are con-
sidering the economic situation as
it relates to the United States,
they are likely to forget that
Sweden is a closely-knit country,
populated by one race and having
less than one-half the population
of the State of New York.
It is a comon fault to overlook
the obvious. The obvious has such
bad habit of upsetting theories.
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