Evening star., 1938-04-17
From The Stars Letter Mail
Recovery Through Zonng B-Spans
Propagandists-TheF Failure of Dcatorshps

Raya." Mr. Bergamin cannot lay claim
to that. for the simple reason that Cruz
y Raya" is not Catholic publication, nor
a religious one at ALL Prof. Forst-Bat-
tagla, an eminent writer, who formerly
was contributor to Cruz y Raya," says
"Others and wish no longer to be friends
Of Bergamin since he steered his excel
lently conducted paper, which had the CO.
operation of prominent men, deeply into
Red waters As it exists now, Cruz
Raya must be absolutely deprecated" Be-
ing markedly Communstic, Cruz Raya"
could scarcely be religious paper, surely.
So much for that. But what of Bergamin
himself? The N. C. W. C. News Service
says that he is the son of a former cabinet
minister, under King Alfonso that he and
party upon the fall Of the monarchy that
he belongs to a group described as the
Spanish radical intellectuals.'
And these are the fellows who have the
unmitigated gall to come here and give out,
in interviews, that the so-called "Loyalists"
in Spain are friendly to priests, allowing
them full liberty to say mass, etc, while the
REBELS" are restricting the priests in their
work, making them suffer" and the like!
As to what Bergamin says the bishops Of
Teruel told him, how does that stack up
against the statement OF all the bishops of
Spain, in their now famous pastoral letter,
that 0ctJlal1V thousands pf how
been tortured and brutally murdered by
the Reds, otherwise known as "Loyalists?"
These same men, Bergamin and the
others, have been recently advertised as
speakers at meeting in Baltimore, under
the auspices Of the North American Com
mittee to Aid Spanish Democracy" They
actually had the breath taking nerve to
try to give the impression that the meeting
had something Catholic. or something in
some way religious about it-as to just
acteristically enough, extremely vague.
They even tried to get Baltimore religious
paper to publish a story on the meeting
and have one of its editors interview one
"a VIC cPSdhCic. ~ IiSSc ldJUtT playful
little jokes. Of the men in question were
reported few days ago in the columns of
that same Baltimore paper itself)
And now these jokers are launching
campaign in Washington among Federal
employees to raise funds for the 'Loyalist"
cause, to raise funds in support of a most
thoroughly discredited government. a Com
munist-ridden government! That's
hearty guffaw, indeed-appealing to en-
ployes of democratic government to help
the cause OF regime dedicated to every
thing that is un-American, undemocratic.
inhuman and uncivilized. don't believe
Bergamin and company will get very far,
even with the powerful aid of Ambassador
de los Rios under whose wing they are in
our midst
Another bythe-way: There is now
running, in a certain popular weekly
magazine published in Philadelphia, a
series Of most amusing and enlightening
articles by an American volunteer in the
"Loyalist' air forces He tells how he left
this country on faxed passport, went by
fake Spanish name in Spain got his
training and tests under Russian flyers
there, pokes sly fun at the "All Spanish
Squadron" to which he belonged together
with sundry other Americans and Russians
anything but spaniards, apparently. in
the main) Come to think of it, he didn't
pay his own freight, either; transportation,
rail and boat. was furnished him all the
way. Who paid, wonder?
knowing that The Star tries to maintain
a reputation for fairness. for giving both
sides OF current questions. look forward
confidently to seeing this letter published.
feel sure there is real meat in it, food
for thought F. F. CECIL.