The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-13

went on unchecked. Lists were pre- pared o. those who were to be killed in every place preparatory to the revolutionary assumption of power on the usuN MarXist lines. In hun dreds of towns and villages off the beaten path, the most degraded members of the local community, spurred on by the agents of the h. ternational, instituted a reign ot terror. Murders, robberies, burnings, povided they were exercised in the saced name of the clenched fist and 8 proletariat dictatorship, passed unpunished and unrebuked by the government. In Malaga alone, ac- cording to the testimony of a Brit ish resident, every church in the place (some forty in all, with the exception of the cathedral and two small buildingS) had been burned before the outbreak of the civil war;
 Destruction
 AS MT. Arthur Lunn has written, "It is easy to feel strongly when you see photograph of a child killed by a bomb, but you have not only to feel but to think to under stand the distinction between the inevitable casualties among civilians in modern warfare and the dellb- crate massacre of men, women and children which has taken place be- hind the Red lines. One corpse looks much like another, and you cannot photograph the state of mind which soaks women in petrol as a prellm- mary to burning them alive"
 The Manchester Guardian, in it's issue of June "A, 1887, published an Illuminating article by a special cor respondent who had just returned from Spain. "The attack on re- ligion," he wrote, "has been more radical in Loyalist Spain than any where else in the world, including even Mexico and Russia. All Roman Catholic churches have been closed down as places of worship. and nearly all have been completely de- troyed inside, only the walls, rock, and tower remaining. Nor have the Protestant churches escaped, with the exception Git would appear to be the only one) of the small Ger man church in Madrid. Visitors to Madrid are shown an unburnt church as a piece of propaganda, and some families in Madrid have had the permission to hold private mass. But these are the loneliest exceptions. In LoyaliSt Spain there is nothing left to persecute' *" The simple but devastating remark, "* there is nothing left to persecute" quite adequately sums up the abysmal state of religion in the provinces under domination of the Red Loyalist government.
 False Dispatches
 And yet the propaganda machine of the Loyalists has been remark ably successful in spreading false news dispatches, such as the one which appeared in one of the great est papers in the English-speaking world, the New York Times. On March 12, this large daily printed prominently an article under the name of one of it's Spanish cor respondents, Herbert L. Matthews stating that religious services are being held in great numbers in Bar celona. The very next day The Times had to say that MT. Mat thews' authority for this news bull letin was a suspended priest who. for the last few years. has been i'll the pay of the HeGs, and active in propaganda against the Church. This correction was published on page thirty within the space of thirteen lines. Its chance of offset ting the harm done by the original falsity was as small and inconspicu- ous as was the byline given it.
 The constant and repeated in- stances of the issuance of false statements and propaganda from Loyalist territories accounts for a great deal of prevalent and errone-