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la chose que leur procure plus de plaisir sont les livres et les disques. Mais les disques quand il s'agit des disques espagnols, des chansons populaires, la jota, le flamenco, les sardanes, etc., les autres de musique classique leur donne le sonneil; pour les livres aussi il faut leur donner lecture simple et surtout en espagnol. Il y a beaucoup qui ne font pas que lire, par contre il y a d'autres qui viennent pour écouter les disques, et d'autres qui font tout les deux. La T.V. leur fatigue pas mal ses yeux, mais elle a aussi ses adeptes.

Concernant notre projet de leur donner un gouter ou une boisson, j'ai la certitude que les vieillards n'alment pas ca; ils preferent le faire chez eux, ils sont plus libres. L'ete puisque nous avons maintenant le frigidaire nous pouvons leur donner quelque boisson fraîche pour commencer et voir comme la chose marche, et ca pourra nous donner une idee de chemin a suivre pour le prochain hiver.

**COLIS ALIMENTAIRES.**- Le Foyer Pablo Casals donne un colis alimentaire par mois a chaque protege depuis le mois d'octobre; la distribution a lieu tout les mois du 15 a 25. Donc dans cette periode l'affluence au Foyer est plus intense, il y a des jours que nous depassons la chiffre de 40 personnes. Heureusement notre Foyer est grande et ca nous permet de les recevoir sans trop de derangement. Mais les espagnols nous sommes assez bruyants et je peux vous dire qu'ils font de bruit; heureusement il y a la musique, remede efficace de leur faire taire, et alors tout le monde l'ecoute avec un grand plaisir.

Ceux de la campagne qui habitent loin de Montauban et qui ne peuvent pas venir ont beaucoup de peine, mais holas...ils ne peuvent pas se deplacer qu'une fois par mois. Nous leur pretons des livres.

Nous avons un petit nombre qui ne peuvent pas venir chercher son colis a cause de son etat de sante ou de mauvaises conditions de communications. Nous les envoyons par le Car ou le chemin de fer les colis, mais la plus part viennent eux-memes leur chercher ou deleguent a un ami avec une auto- risation pour venir leur chercher.

A ceux de Montauban qui par cause de sante ne peuvent pas venir le chercher nous le portons directement chez lui, mais la plus part chargent a des amis de venir le chercher dans son nom, chose qui nous facilite pas mal notre tache.

Nous avons aussi un refugie, que de facon benevole nous fait les convocations de facon directe pour nous eviter des depenses de courrier et autre de nos proteges nous travaillent en ce moment notre petit jardin; nous aurons des fleurs dans le printemps.

**HOSPITAL - HOSPICE.**- Nous avons etabli deux visites fixes. A part ca nous avons les demarches avec les Bureaux de l'Etablissement et les visites aux malades quand nous sommes appeles. Dans les visites fixes nous apportons des livres et aussi une fois par mois colis alimentaire specialement conçu pour les besoins d'hospitalises.

**VETEMENTS.**- Le Foyer Pablo Casals a donne cet hiver un colis de vetements neufs pour chaque vieillard, avec des pantalons, tricots en laine,

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chaussettes et bas.

En ce moment nous sommes en train de preparer une grande distribu-
tion de vetements de laquelle beneficierons pas seulement les vieillards
mais aussi des autres refugies, malades et mutiles, qui ont bien besoin
d'etre aides aussi.

La distribution des vetements nous l'avons toujours fait et nous con-
tinuerons a le faire par rendez-vous. De cette facon les attentes sont
moins longues et en plus sachant d'avance comment la famille est constituee
nous pouvons preparer le colis et ca facilite un travail assez dur qui
demande pas mal de temps, puisque je tiens a donner des vetements les plus
approximatifs a les tailles.

Il y a aussi pas mal de vetements que, meme en bon etat d'usage, sont
sales; maintenant nous nettoyons les pieces qui sont lavables.

Voila quelques idees sur notre travail, nous avons fait pas mal de
chemin, nous pouvons encore faire d'avantage, ca depend des moyens econo-
miques mis a notre disposition.

Possibles distributions des articles etat neuf: Puisque maintenant nos
refugies ont des couvertures il y a une autre article duquel ont a grand
besoin - DES DRAPS. Elles sont chères, je le sais, mais peut-être un jour
nous pourrons arriver a faire cette distribution, chose a laquelle je pense
depuis bien longtemps.

**************

March 23, 1962

Dear Nancy:

Victoria has had an appeal from a
Spaniard in France and wonders if you
could have his case looked into. He
claims to have worked for her in Spain
but she does not place him. This is
the name:

Sr. Manuel Jorba
8 Rue Billandel
Cenon (Gironde), France

He states that he is sick and has
no resources other than the French
old age pension.

By the way, I have not received any
reply to my letter to you of Jan. 29.

With best regards,

Louise Crane

Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc.

Room 406 + 80 East 11th Street + New York City 3, N. Y.

OR egion 4-7451

PABLO CASALS
SALVADOR DE MADARIAGA
Honorary Chairman

HANNAH ARENDT†
Chairman

MARGARET DE SILVER†
Treasurer

NANCY MACDONALD†
Executive Secretary

RHODA CLARK
JOAN HERBST
JANE POTTER
EVALYN STEINBOCK
Office Staff

SUZANNE CHATELET
Field Representative

Sponsors
CARMEN ALDECOA†
ROBERT J. ALEXANDER
KATRINA M. BARNES
ALFRED H. BARR, JR.
CLAUDE G. BOWERS*
FENNER BROCKWAY
MME. ALBERT CAMUS
ALBERT CAMUS*
HODDING CARTER
DOROTHY DAY
JESUS DE GALINDEZ*
MRS. JOHN DEWEY
JAMES T. FARRELL
ERNEST FLEISCHMAN†
WALDO FRANK
MARTIN GERBER
JOSEPH GLAZER
BERNARD GREENHOUSE
BERTHA GRUNER†
REV. DONALD HARRINGTON
JULIUS HOCHMAN
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD
MRS. ALFRED W. JONES
ALFRED KAZIN
PAUL KREBS
JAMES LOEB, JR.
DWIGHT MACDONALD
A. J. MUSTE
MARY McCARTHY
LOUIS NELSON
REINHOLD NIEBUHR
MRS. GEORGE ORWELL
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH
SIR HERBERT READ
REV. HERMAN F. REISSIG
LAWRENCE ROGIN
MICHAEL ROSS
GEORGE RUBIN
ADELAIDE SCHULKIND
RAMON SENDER
GEORGE N. SHUSTER
IGNAZIO SILONE
ROBERT SNYDER
A. J. P. TAYLOR
NORMAN THOMAS
ESTEBAN VICENTE
MRS. CHARLES R. WALKER
ROWLAND WATTS
GEORGE WOODCOCK
LEONARD WOODCOCK
CHARLES ZIMMERMAN

* Deceased
† Executive Committee

June 5, 1962.

Dear Louise:

I thought you might like to see the letter which Casals
has written to Norman Cousins and which Cousins sent to
the U.S. Committee for Refugees and which they sent to
me. I asked if I might send you a copy and they agreed
but of course it is not for publication without Cousins
consent.

I imagine you know that Margaret De Silver died last Fri-
day after a long illness. We shall miss her sorely at
the committee and also as a friend.

I must also tell you that Nicolas Navas Amat, recommended
to us by Victoria Kent in February 1954 has died. He had
been adopted by one of our contributors and received help
regularly since May 1958 and irregularly prior to that
time. There was a notice about his death in the Eusko Deya
for May.

With all best regards to you and Victoria,

357

(Contributions to Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc. are tax deductible)

Mario de la VINA, 10, rue Burq, PARIS 18e, Réf. Espagnol
depuis 1939.

Célibataire. Né le 3 Juillet 1910 à Gijón (Oviedo)
Carte de Réfugié Numéro 48.902/6399.

Secrétaire à l'Ambassade de Cuba en France de 1948 à 1960.

Rédacteur-Correspondant en France de "Carteles" de La HAVANE, accrédité près du Gouvernement français, de 1949 à 1960.

Collaborateur de "Bohemia" de la Havane (jusqu'en 1960), "Americas" de Washington (de l'Union Panaméricaine), "Temas" et Bohemiam libre" de New York, "Elite" et "Ultimas Noticias" de Caracas, etc.

Rédacteur en chef de l'Agence Européenne Interaméricaine (A.E.I.) Agence defeatures en Espagnol pour la Presse Latinoaméricaine (1948-1950)

Rédacteur de l'Agence Febus-Agence de features en Espagnol pour la Presse Latinoaméricaine (1947)

PRIX ANTONIO ZOZAYA en 1931 du quotidien "LA LIBERTAD" de Madrid. (Prix annuel de la meilleure chronique journalistique)

PRIX DE LA CHAMBRE OFFICIELLE DU LIVRE, DE MADRID en 1934.

PRIX MIGUEL MOYA en 1935 du quotidien "EL LIBERAL" de Madrid. (Prix annuel du reportage).

Collaborateur de "LA LIBERTAD", "EL LIBERAL" "ESTAMPA" etc. de Madrid de 1931 à 1939.

Paris le 3 Juillet 1962

SPANISH REFUGEE AID. INCORPORATED

Association étrangère
pour l'aide aux Réfugiés espagnols
autorisée par le Ministre de l'Intérieur

64, Rue de Richelieu - PARIS (2°)

Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc.
80 East 11th Street, Rm 406
New York 3, New York

10/15/62

SOME CASES AWAITING HELP

*1. ABELLAN VICENTE, Vve. Hermeneglida
42, rue Peyrolières
Toulouse, (H.G.)

Aged 71, sick and alone, lives on
$16. a month.

2. AJENJO REYES Salvador
44 Passage Cauthier
Casablanca, Maroc

Aged 67, paralyzed and epileptic from
Civil War wounds. Lives with son who
earns $32. a month. He has pension of
$16. a month to cover medicines, etc.

3. ABALADEJO GARCIA, Francisco
36, rue de la Pradelle
Clermont Ferrand (Puy de Dome)

Aged 48, heart trouble, total invalid
Imprisoned by Franco until 1959. Wife
and 6 children, aged 15 through 4.
$137. a month. Must be hospitalized.

#4. ALBERICH, Vicente
Rue des Ecoles
Iaroque d'Olmes (Ariege)

Aged 44, badly hurt in work accident,
needs special food but can't afford
it. Wife and 4 children, aged 15
through 6. $93. a month.

#5. ALCAZAR SALES, Vicente
Rue Vieille
Cugnaux (H.G.)

Aged 75, wife aged 73, both sick,
living on pension of $10. a month.
Friends must help pay their rent.

6. ALIAS PINO, Juan-Jose
21, rue Holtzer
Unieux (Loire)

Aged 64, has TB, going blind in one
eye. Wife aged 64. $54. a month.

7. ALONSO REQUINA, Anastasio
Belvianes (Aude)

Aged 53, hospitalized with TB. Wife,
and child of 6½. $34. a month. Rent
is $10. a month.

8. AMUTIO CASTRILLO, Tomas
H.L.M. Cite Maconnais
Bat. H. Boite No. 47
Sidi-Bel-Abbes, Oran, Algerie

Aged 75. Widower. Chronic rheumatism.
Can't work. Tiny pension plus $10. a
month help.

9. ANDRADA GAYOSO, Luis
Trave Bruno Raezoli 42
Mourepianne (16)
Marseille (B. du Rh.)

Aged 72. Heart and asthma trouble.
Wife and he have pension of $48. a
month.

10. ASEN MAS, Miguel
16, rue Croche Meffroy
Orleans (Loiret)

Aged 68. Alone. Serious heart con-
dition. $29. a month.

* awaiting help since 12/61

# awaiting help since 2/62

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11. AYUDA CASSORAN, Jose
Rue General Leclerc 32
Caussade (T. & G.)

12. AZON CASASUS, Matias
48, rue XIV de Juillet
Pau (B.P.)

13. BALAGUER GARRIDO, Salvador
chez Mme. Anne Marie Berta
13, rue Thionville
Toulouse (H.G.)

14. BARBERO JURADO, Fernando
6, rue de la Cite
Rouhling (Moselle)

15. BARGUENO, Fabio
Recebedou. Barraquement 48
Portet s/Garonne (H.G.)

\#16. BARNES, Vve. Juana
34, rue Ferisser
Toulouse (H.G.)

17. BARRUFET GELONCH, Jose
1, rue d'Eylau
Toulouse (H.G.)

18. BENITEZ SANCHEZ, Enrique
Rue du Haut-Charlin, Chez Perperot
Labattut-Merignac (Gironde)

19. BERNABE MULA, Antonio
25 E, Cite du Chateau de l'Hers
Toulouse (H.G.)

20. BILBAO ALTUNAGA, Pedro
13, rue du Long Pont
Noyon (Oise)

Aged 55. Wife has serious heart trouble, needs expensive medicine. Daughter, aged 4. He earns $47.75 a month, plus $7. a month help.

Aged 64, alone in France. Heart and nervous trouble. Can't work. $37. a month. Tries to send money to invalid wife in Spain.

Aged 49. Alone. TB. Left hospital 5/61. No place to go, sleeps at SRA office. Can't work. Too old for reeducation. $12. a month.

Aged 67. Diabetes, sciatica, rheumatism. Total invalid. Wife, aged 60, has chronic bronchitis. $21. a month.

Aged 69, wife aged 65. They live with their son who had serious operation, works irregularly. $12. a month pension.

Aged 53. TB and liver trouble. Husband died 8/62. She came to France in 1947, after terrible beating by Francoists for refusing to divulge information about her husband. No pension. Married son helps some.

Aged 51. Alone. Heart trouble, gall bladder operation, hardening of the arteries. 80% invalid. Needs care he can't afford. $34. a month.

Aged 59. Widower. Alone. Parents killed by Francoists because of his Republican activities. Heart trouble, lung trouble, asthma, epilepsy. Now mentally deficient due to sufferings. $14. a month. Undernourished, needs food, vitamins, everything.

Aged 58. Heart trouble, right hand paralyzed, arthritis. Wife, aged 61, has rheumatism, had recent stomach operation. Both too ill to work. $25. a month.

Aged 74. Family in Spain. Heart trouble. Asthma. Worked until 1959, then had 2 stomach operations. Invalid. Old Spanish woman takes care of him. No pension yet.

#21. BLASCO GAZO, Louis
13, rue des Boursiers
Castres (Tarn)

#22. BONET VENTURA, Juan
71, rue Castelnau
Albi (Tarn)

#23. BOTANCH, Pascual Geronimo
Rue Jeanne Samari
Olonzac, (Herault)

24. BROSSET VAL, Fidele
24, rue de Tarbes
Toulouse (H.G.)

25. BRUGUES SENERAS, Jean
Méne par Salies (H.G.)

26. BULLIDO MUNOZ, Gumersindo
70, rue de la République
Montauban (T. & G.)

27. BUSSOT ROURICH, Dimas
11, rue Oliva
Perpignan (P.O.)

28. CABRERA MUNOZ, Cecilio
Chemin de la Coume
Lavelanet (Ariege)

29. CALVO EGEA, Vve. Gregoria
4, Bd. d'Annan
Saint Henri
Marseille (B. du Rh.)

30. CANAL, José
42, rue Polinaires
Toulouse (H.G.)

31. CANO DOMINGUEZ, Juan
Rue Incu Aldelmalek
Villa A. Aldeguer
Oujda, Maroc

32. CARCEL GONZALEZ, Amancio
rue du Bayard
St. Paul du Fenouillet (P.O.)

Aged 73. Wife aged 63. Daughter, aged 30, paralyzed by polio, recently died. Waiting for pension. Now have $15. a month. Rent is $12. a month.

Aged 57. Operation in 1954, invalid since
Wife, 3 children, aged 16, 15 and 12.
$56. a month.

Aged 60. Alone, wife died of cancer, 1958.
Severe rheumatism. $20. a month.

Aged 55. Wife, and son aged 12. Left
hand crushed in work accident, 1960; case
still in litigation. Wife losing her
health doing housework many hours a day.
$46. a month pension. Rent is $32. a mo.

Aged 61. Invalid. Wife is 50% invalid,
but does housework, earning $24. a month.
No pension. Rent $10. a month.

Aged 42. Alone. Ill with stomach ulcer
since 1960. Can't work. $28. a month.

Aged 68. Hernia; leg paralyzed from
work accident. Wife, aged 64, is paral-
yzed. $32. a month.

Aged 45. TB. Wounded in Civil War, lost
his right eye and bullet remained in his
lung. Just left hospital, completely
crippled, deformed, alone, in despair.
$23. a month.

Aged 61, widow. Rheumatism, liver
trouble. Lived with son who recently
married and can't support her as before.
$1.40 a month pension. Son helps some.

Aged 49. Sculptor. Completely disabled
from accident. No indemnity. Wife did
housework, is now ill, can work no more.
$12. a month.

Aged 69. One leg amputated, may be neces-
sary to amputate the other. Wife, aged 64.
No pensions in Morocco. Their son helps,
but may marry.

Aged 56. Three operations for trouble with
arteries in legs. Now hospitalized. Was
self-employed, gets no pension. Wife ill
but working. No other resources. Son of
15 and daughter of 14.

#33. CARRENO ALVAREZ. Francisco
4, rue Ferriere
Toulouse (H.G.)

34. CARRERA, Vve. Joachina
2, rue Joux Aigues
Toulouse (H.G.)

35. CARRERA CEBOLLERO, Clemente
Campagne les Bains (Aude)

36. CASTAN ARBUES, Mariano
52, rue de la Cite
Troyes (Aube)

37. CEBOLLADA MORALES, Manuel
6, rue de la Rispe
Toulouse (H.G.)

38. CHAMORRO CASTRO, Luis
chez Mme. Piki
37, rue de la Dome
Casablanca, Maroc

39. CINTAS CARRION, Ramon
Hotel Atlantic
131, rue des Fontaines
Toulouse (H.G.)

#40. CONESA CONESA, Juan
1, rue Furbastard
Toulouse (H.G.)

#41. COSTA FIESTAS, Domingo
37, rue Joseph Bertrand
Perpignan (P.O.)

42. COTERA DIAZ, Ramon
80 Chaussee d'Hocquet
Abbeville (Somme)

Aged 52. Disabled from leg and back wounds during Civil War. Had work accident 1958, must be constantly accompanied because of fainting spells. Wife has chronic phlebitis. Three children aged 16, 11 and 9. $96. a mo.

Aged 69. Ill, can't work. Lives with 2 daughters; 1 is ill, can't work; the other works part time, earns very little. No pension.

Aged 54. Left arm and leg paralyzed dating from deportation by Nazis. Lives with sister and brother-in-law who are both ill and can't work. Niece is the only one working. He gets $6. a month pension.

Aged 66. Alone. Family in Spain. Bronchial trouble, can't work. $18. a month.

Aged 46, was a musician, worked until 1960 when he fell ill with spinal and blood trouble. Wife has chronic asthma and emphysema. Sons aged 17 and 13. $22. a month. Need help to keep the children in school.

Aged 61. Diabetes. Alone. Wife died in May. Hasn't found work since 1958. No resources. Depends on charity for rent of $6. a mo. and food. Three months behind in rent.

Aged 51. Alone; wife and family in Spain. Serious heart trouble. Can't work. Imprisoned, tortured, condemned to death by Falange, escaped to France in 1949. $26. a month. Rent $10. a month.

Aged 63. Chronic asthm, total invalid. Wife, aged 60, has varicose veins, but earns $12. a month doing housework. $25. a month pension. Rent is $9. a month.

Aged 46. Alone. Operations for cancer, stomach, liver and spleen trouble. In charge of sister and brother-in-law. $26. a month. Needs help to pay for medicines and care he needs.

Aged 62. Incurable peritonitis due to work accident. Invalid since 1953. Wife aged 69. $49. a month.

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#43. CRESPO FERNANDEZ, Vve. Irma
5, rue Maronne Dubuc
Monville (S. & M.)

#44. CROSAS ESTEVE, Jose
2, Blvd. de la Villette
Paris XIX

#45. CRUZ CAMFOS, Tomas
15, rue Armand Marie
Caen (Calvados)

#46. CUEN MORON, Ramon
16 Cite de Sanitas
Orleans (Loiret)

#47. CUROS BONAL, Juan
69, rue Villenouvelle
Montauban (T. & G.)

#48. DELGADO, Vve. Rosa
Duravel (Lot)

#49. DEL RIO MARTI, Lorenzo
13, Ave. Gambetta
Ceret (P.O.)

#50. DOMINGUEZ ORDIALES, Juan
20 Cite Trevise
Paris IX

#51. DUCASI BENAVENT, Jose
Hauret
Toquepine par Condom (Gers)

#52. ESTEVE, Jaime
14 Pl. Penitents Blancs
Toulouse (H.G.)

#53. ESTEVE COMPAGNET, Claudio
26 bis rue Monadey
Bordeaux (Gironde)

Aged 64. Widow. Husband judge of popular tribunal in Spain, killed by Falangists. She has rheumatism, hands crippled, needs constant injections. Lives with daughter who is poorly paid seamstress, works day and night.

Aged 65. Alone. Wife in Spain. Rheumatism since 1954. Can't work. Waiting for old age pension. Gets nothing now.

Aged 52. Alone. Silicosis since 1954. Can't work. $18. a month. Can't afford necessities: clothes, shoes, linen, food, a stove.

Aged 52. Heart trouble. Total invalid since '56. Wife, aged 49, is ill, had 2 operations, does some housework. Son, aged 14. $30. a month.

Aged 57. Widower. Alone. TB since '46. Just left hospital but needs complete rest. Learned caming in hospital, but health has deteriorated & he can do no work. $23. a month.

Aged 46. Widow. Five children to care for; no work. $70. a month.

Aged 69. Wife aged 72. Both ill. Pension of $35. a month. Their sons help them, but can't do much.

Aged 69. Widower. Alone. Stomach ulcer, varicose veins, rheumatism. Invalid. Lived clandestinely in Spain until '49. Therefore not eligible for French pension. $7. a mo. help, plus whatever his friends can do for him.

Aged 38. Blind. Bachelor. Can't work. Is in charge of his brother who has many children. $20. a month.

Aged 59. Alone. Stomach trouble. Invalid. $30. a month.

Aged 66; wife aged 62. Has had asthma since 1950, hasn't worked. $25. a mo. pensions. Rent is $9. a month.

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54. FERNANDEZ SANCHEZ, Doroteo
91 Ave. Roger Salengro
Marseille (B. du Rh.)

55. PAEZ MORATIN, Jose
Barbaste (L. & G.)

56. PALACIOS ABULA, Jesus
9, rue Victor Hugo
St. Gaudens (H.G.)

57. PALMER REIG, Benjamin
"La Clusaz"
St. Alban Leysse (Savoie)

58. PARDINAS TORRES, Antonio
25, rue Caraman
Toulouse (H.G.)

59. PASTOR, Vve. Francisca
92, rue Riguet, Hotel
Toulouse (H.G.)

*60. PASTOR PUIGOSIOL, Vve. Dolores
Cite Tardive No. 5, Bat. 3
Firminy (Loire)

61. PEREIRA LOPEZ, Ramiro
2, rue Haute Vallee
Orleans (Loiret)

62. PEREZ CARRASCO, Juan
8, rue d'Auxerre
Quartier Bourgogne
Casablanca, Maroc

63. PEREZ CONTE, Joaquin
48, rue Beaufleury
Bordeaux (Gironde)

*64. PERIS REDOLAT, Antonio
40, rue Boinod
Paris XVIII

Aged 66. Wife aged 65. $15. a month pension.
He does some work as rag-picker. Need
clothes, help with rent, fuel for winter.

Aged 64. Widower. Alone. Can't work; has
TB and needs rest; 70% invalid. $26. a mo.

Aged 77; wife of 75. Ill since operation;
intestinal hemorrhages; right arm useless
owing to Civil War wound; wife also sick.
$9. a month. (Son is worker with 2 child-
ren so can't help much.)

Aged 52; wife 51; sons 11 and 14. Wife has
had costly (uterine) illness for long time.
Earns 45¢ hr. as construction worker but
rheumatism causes him to lose time. Had
been condemned to 30 yrs. solitary confine-
ment after Civil War but escaped to France
in 1949.

Aged 71; wife 71. He has heart trouble,
chronic bronchitis, liver trouble; needs
expensive special diet. Wife also ill.
$19. a month.

Aged 61. Widow since '59. Son, 50% dis-
abled in Civil War, works but is married
so can't help much. She has diabetes and
can't work. Fled from Oran to Toulouse in
May '62. Lives in hallway of hotel owing
to their kindness.

Aged 40. Widow since '59. Lives with
her mother & 3 children of 8, 11 & 16. 90%
invalid; rheumatism. $58a month help.

Aged 52; wife 33; children 13, 9, 7 &
4 mos. He has TB; total invalid since '50.
He & wife hospitalized after accident this
year. $114. a month.

Aged 61; bachelor. Rarely able to work
since auto accident in '59. Sick and in
misery. No economic help.

Aged 62. Widower since '58. Suffers from
arterial hypertension, vaso-motor troubls,
liver infection; left thumb amputated as
result of work accident. $40. a month.

Aged 62; wife 58. Unable to work since
'51; heart ailment & asthma; wife also
ill. $20. a month plus what wife can
earn if she works. Wife had operation &
needs special diet.

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65. PINTADO VILLANUEVA, Juan
36, rue Richard C. de Lion
Agen (L.G.)

66. PIQUER NICOLAU, Faustino
19, rue du Fort
Bordeaux (Gironde)

67. PUZO CABERO, Rafael
26 Place du Puig
Perpignan (P.O.)

#68. RAMOS, Vve. Joaquina
9, rue des Champs Elysees
Toulouse (H.G.)

69. REBOLL CASTANO, Amalia
Maison Cobol
Annonay (Ardeche)

70. REYES ROMILLO, Francisco
4, rue Terrasse
Clermont-Ferrand (P. de D.)

#71. RIBARES SANCERNI, Santiago
Chez M. E. Abad
a Castelgaillard
par l'Isle en Dodon (H.G.)

72. RIBAS PUIG, Juan
Maison Caretier
Route de Pamiers
Variilhes (Ariege)

73. RIDORSA DELMAR, Esteban
53, rue Pargaminieres
Toulouse (H.G.)

74. RIESGO VICENTE, Gregorio
5, rue de Mongallet, chez Tejero
Paris XII

75. RINCON GARCIA, Mariano
Ave. de la Gloire
Cite Nouvelle 4, Toulouse (H.G.)

Aged 53; wife 40; daughter 13. He has
polynephritis & needs expensive treat-
ments; wife also ill. $47. a month.

Aged 42; wife 40; children 18 & 9. He
has pulmonary congestion, bronchitis, asthma.
$70. a month help.

Aged 71; lives with aged mother. He blind
since age of 4 when had menengitis. Studied
music but hasn't taken it up since exile.
Father died in '40 in concentration/camp.
Mother can't work, bronchitis. $10. a mo.

Aged 44. Widow. Stomach ulcers, can't
work. Daughter of 2. They live with her
married sister. $7. a month help.

Aged 61. Single. Chronic kidney trouble,
can't work since removal of 1 kidney. Has
sister in mental hospital whom she tries
to help. $14. a month.

Aged 55. Alone. Unable to work. Ill since
put in punishment camp by Germans for go-
ing on hunger strike. Helped by friends
while waiting for pension.

Aged 67. Bachelor. Lives with friend.
Heart trouble & asthma; 90% disabled.
$18. a month.

Aged 61; wife 51. He has bronchitis; wife
has rheumatism, liver ailment & disability
from broken knee. Awaiting pension.

Aged 57. Bachelor; alone. Lost leg in
Civil War. Now very sick, can hardly speak
movements very slow. $30. a month.

Aged 75. Married but alone in exile. 90%
invalid. No regular economic help since
came to France 2/62 from Algeria where
lost health in concentration camps.

Aged 72; wife 62; grown son & daughter
(both sickly). He has spinal trouble &
may never be able to work again; wife
has crippled left hand.

87. SEGARRA, Joaquin
25, rue de la Republique
Albi (Tarn)

Aged 62; wife 58. He 100% invalid; wife
not well since accident but still earns
c. $4. a week doing housework. $36. a
month pension.

88. SERRA OLIVER, Ramon
11, rue Bertrand
Beziers (Herault)

Aged 68. Alone in exile (wife & children
in Spain). $10. a month; awaiting pension.

89. SERRA TUBAU, Ramon
3, rue de Bitche
Auch (Gers)

Aged 61; wife 54 & daughter 16. He 90%
invalid & mute after larynx operation.
$40. a month pension; daughter earns $6.
a month as apprentice.

90. SERRAT BARBERAN, Enrique
Ave. Charles de Gaulle
Sore (Landes)

Aged 75. Widower living with brother. Was
tailor but can no longer depend on this
for living. He & brother together get
$ 14. a month.

#91. SESE, Simon
Ste. Valiere
par Ginestas (Aude)

Aged 79. He has chronic bronchitis; wife
has rheumatism; daughter has stomach
ulcers; son-in-law earns very little &
they have nephew of 9 in their care.
$12. a month help.

*92. SOPENA CASANOVAS, Ramon
Place du Marche
Briatexte (Tarn)

Aged 53; wife 45; children 12 & 17. Wife
hospitalized for long time with mental
illness. Earns $45. a month as laborer
& gets $12. help.

93. SOROLLA, Ambrosio
85 bis Chemin de Torremila
Perpignan (P.O.)

Aged 59; wife 58; sons 11, 10 & 7. He has
heart trouble, only 1 leg; wife must take
care of children who are sickly. $73. a mo.

94. SORRIVAS, Mme. Josefa
14, rue Franc-Fomier
Tarbes (H.P.)

Aged 70. Widow. Married daughter & son
help as they can. She has spinal rheumatism
& hernia. $12.50 a mo. pension.

95. SUAREZ ORTIZ, Jose
36, rue Pasteur
Chambon* Feuguerolle (Loire)

Aged 55. Married. Arms amputated. Nearly
blind.

96. SUNER PUIG, Manuel
41, rue de la Republique
Mainvilliers, Chartres (E.&L.)

Aged 79. Wife & daughter in Spain. Too
sick to work.

97. TARRAGO MARTINEZ, Carmen
15, rue de l'Industrie
Toulouse (H.G.)

Aged 61. Widow. Ill since operation for
breast cancer in '51. Her married son
must care for 4 children & mother-in-law.
$18. a month pension.

98. TAULES BELTRAN, Jesus
Puchiou
Astaffort (L.&G.)

Aged 60. Alone in exile. Wife & children
in Spain. In treatment for TB for long
time. No pension; no pocket money; gets
room & board in exchange for a little
farm work.

PABLO CASALS
SALVADOR DE MADARIAGA
Honorary Chairmen

HANNAH ARENDT†
Chairman

MARGARET DE SILVER†
Treasurer

Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc.

ORegon 4-7451

October 17, 1962.

Dear Louise:

I am enclosing a list of 100 of our cases from 300 who are waiting for help. As you will see, some have been hoping for assistance for almost a year and due to lack of funds we haven't been able to send them anything yet. To help all of them now we would need $9,000 (@ $10 a month for 3 months which is what we would like to give them). I hope very much that you can help us and them very soon again ?

In addition to these cases already known to us, there are new ones writing for help, who have fled from Algiers and have nothing. I am enclosing the translation of a letter from Ascensie Basterrechea which is typical. These cases we must check on and then help as soon as we can. And then there are those who have remained in Algiers who also have nothing since the departure of the French.

Mme. Chatelet has asked us if we might be able to find an "adopter" for General Jose Riquelme so that he might be getting the kind of help that you are giving regularly to Admiral Valentin Fuentes. She says that the former is a man of great dignity, who survives with great difficulty. His wife does some work sewing, in order to earn a little money. We have just given the General a hearing aid which he needed very badly. Would you perhaps want to help him as you do Valentin Fuentes ? I am sure Victoria must know who he is. I have seen mention of him in books I have read about the Civil War.

Thanks for the Ibericas and do let us hear from you soon.

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copy

Fort Vendres October 1, 1962

The undersigned Ascensio Basterrechea Aranguena, born in Guernica (Vizcaya) Spain on May 23, 1892

having fought throughout the entire war in Spain, being wounded
several times, including a bullet in my arm and a fracture of my
left foot,

having been evacuated from Bilbao, Santander, Asturias, Bayonne,
Barcelona, and Alicante; in Alicante having filled the office of Fort
Inspector, from October 1937 until March 19th, 1939, when I left for
Oran, Algeria.

In Algeria having passed through various concentration camps, like
Bogari, Bogar, Dejlfa,

and in Oran, not being able to work because of my age, I had to
resort to selling Algerian national lottery tickets, coming then to an
even more serious situation, without any resources, and with my life
in danger.

I left Oran July 31st, 1962 and went to Fort-Vendres, where I
find myself without resources and without work.

For this reason I write to you, a humanitarian agency.

And having fought in the war as a volunteer in the merchant marine,
with Norwegian and Dutch ships, and having received documents which
tell me that I have no right to any help.

With gratitude which truly equals your good will,

Ascensio Basterrechea

1 Rue Vieille Poste
Fort Vendres, P.O., France

Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc.
80 East 11th Street, Rm 40
New York 3, New York

SOME OLD SPANISH REFUGES WHO NEED HELP

1) ALBIOL SANCHEZ, Tomas, was born 2/2/69, and is a bachelor living alone. He had worked in a paper factory during the war, and after his release from the concentration camps in France he did farm work. He writes, "Having worked for unscrupulous employers who did not pay into the Social Security for me, I arrived at the retirement age to find that I had no right to this pension. I am old and unable to work any more, and I receive only the tiny pension of 61NF ($12.20) a month allotted to political refugees." (The minimum cost of living per person in France is $30, per month.)

2) MAINAR GRACIA, Elias, was born 10/28/87. His wife died in Spain in 1936, and he has no children. He had been a shepherd in Spain, and worked for the Republican militia during the Civil War. In France he did farm work, but now at the age of 75 he can work no longer, and receives only the minimum pension of 61NF ($12.20) a month. He is terribly lonely and needy, and has not enough to take care of even his basic needs.

3) MARCO MERGADAL, Pilar, born 4/6/95, writes: "During the Civil War I served for the soldiers. Actually, I am 67 years old and I can't work any more, since I suffer from rheumatism and have in my charge my mother, who is 91. My mother needs constant care since she is very feeble because of her age. Hoping that my request for help will be considered....." Mme. Marco occasionally does some housework, but is unable to work often, and these two women subsist in misery on the old age pension of 62.15NF ($12.50) a month which is all they receive.

4) MATA ALEJANDRE, Alejandro, born 11/1/87, had been an electrical engineer in Spain, and worked with the air force during the Civil War. He and his wife fled to France in 1939, and began doing farm work. At the beginning of World War II he found work in an aviation factory, but when the Germans came he and his wife went to the Pyrenees where he began giving lessons in math and Spanish. His wife fell ill in 1945 and died after four years of suffering. In June 1953 he returned to Paris, staying with friends and teaching. In January 1959 he got pulmonary congestion and pleurisy, and has not been well since, subject to bronchial and liver trouble. A year ago he underwent a severe throat operation and is no longer able to give lessons. He is all alone now, and must leave the room where he is living. He gets only a pension of 61NF ($17.) a month, and is in a critical situation.

5) ORTI ARTIGA, Joaquín, born 9/17/97. He is in the hospital at Castres. He has leukemia, has had many transfusions, is still gravely ill and half-paralyzed. His wife, Marta, aged 60, is always at the foot of his bed, and is unable to work. He had been a railroad worker in Spain, a painter in France until his illness forced him to stop working. They receive only 95.17NF a month from Social Security, which is the equivalent of about $18. Their situation is critical, and they really need regular help.

6) TAULES BEATRAN, Jesus, born 8/18/02, is alone in exile; his wife and children remained in Spain. He has had TB for a long time, and is under treatment, needing constant care. He has no pension whatsoever. In exchange for a little bit of farming he is given room and board, but has no pocket money of his own.

Refugee Aid, Inc.

Meet + New York City 3, N.

ORegon 4-74

December 24, 1962.

Ligue des Mutiles
and he writes me the

Ile de Tampa (Florida) je relations sont dues a cause de "La Junta de Cluturaacon pas tres suivie de petites sommes d'argent, i nous les fait parvenir. Monsieur Jose Martinez a nom de la "Junta de est membre, s'adressait, l'argent pour les Mutiles Espagne en Exil, et je s i de l'argent a d'autres us prie de m'informer a cez, je m' imagine le qua- agent etrange de gouverne- s nous interese remarquer de la Ligue."

And now I'm curious to know where you read about this
Mr. Martinez and what it was because I don't remember ?

All best wishes for the New Year,

Paris le 18 December 1962.

Mutualiste
Louge brane.

Aure, notre salutations
les plus sincères et cordiales, j'ai
un grand plaisir de vous présenter
le grand professeur gratendu por
le geste si généreuse que nous aver
eu en vous accordant, a une femme
et a moi, une aide mecanique de
150 Nf pour nous deux; a parler du
Decembre courant.

Cette nouvelle nous a été communi-
quée par Madame Nancy Mac-
Donald, Delegue à New York de
Spanish Refugee Aid. Et la Dele-
quée à Paris de cette Association,
from a dea-dame, et y apeakge
jour, fer 150 Nf de l'aide du

LAWRENCE KOGIN
MICHAEL ROSS
GEORGE RUBIN
ADELAIDE SCHULKIND
RAMON SENDER
GEORGE N. SHUSTER
IGNAZIO SILONE
ROBERT SNYDER
A. J. P. TAYLOR
NORMAN THOMAS
ESTEBAN VICENTE
MRS. CHARLES R. WALKER
ROWLAND WATTS
GEORGE WOODCOCK
LEONARD WOODCOCK
CHARLES ZIMMERMAN

357

CASALS
ADOR DE MADARIAGA
Honorary Chairman

HANNAH ARENDT†
Chairman

MARGARET DE SILVER†
Treasurer

Sponsors

Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc.

ORegon 4-7451

11/20/62

Dear Louise:

I'm so glad you and your Mother are going to contribute again. We need you both badly !

All the best,

Here is what Suzanne Chatelet wrote recently about General Riquelme. "He is a small, lively, kind person, full of courage at all times. He had a very brilliant military career. He has 22 decorations: Spanish, French, Belgian, English. He was kidnapped here - it is thought by the OAS - last February and he must have a good constitution to have survived the blows they gave him on his head and at his age. They abandoned him, unconscious in a hallway, and stole his portfolio which contained no papers and very little money. The son of Mme. Riquelme lives with them and earns very little money and he cannot get married because he must take care of his parents. Mme. Riquelme does what she can but earns very little at it. All those decorations bring nothing but Honor, but Honor doesn't pay the Baker. The General has looked for work. He speaks arabic very well and has a law and sciences degree. But whenever he thinks he has found some work, the employers are frightened by his age although he doesn't give the impression of being 82. Also it is difficult to give a menial job to this man who is a Commander of the Legion of Honor. We feel that at his age he deserves a rest. We hope you will find someone who can help him."

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19 de abril, 1963

General José Riquelme
49 rue de Levis
Paris 17, France

Muy estimado General Riquelme:

Espero que usted me perdonará por no haber contestado su amable carta del 24 de diciembre antes. Estoy muy contenta que puedo ayudar un poquito a alguien tan distinguido como usted, y sobre todo alguien quien ha ayudado, en su día, tantos otros españoles.

No se si usted conoce a la revista IBERICA, dirigida por Doña Victoria Kent. Hemos ya publicado noticias de usted cuando usted estaba atacado por los agentes del O.A.S. Yo incluyo un recorte de IBERICA sobre aquel incidente, también vamos a enviarle la revista regularmente en esperanza que usted la encontrarás de interés.

Espero que su brazo derecho está completamente bien ahora, y que eso será el último accidente.

Con los mejores deseos para usted y la señora Riquelme,

Muy atentamente,

Louise Crane

P.S. Yo escribo a usted en mi mal español porque no francés casi no existe.

Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc.

OREgon 4-7451

September 6, 1963

Mrs. Victoria Kent
Iberica
112 East 19th St.
New York 3, N. Y.

Dear Mrs. Kent:

In Mrs. Macdonald's absence from the country I am writing in response to your inquiry about the case of Alejandro (or Santos) Mata, 83, rue Duhesme, Paris.

I enclose a translation of Sr. Mata's response to our original questionnaire sent after his case was first brought to our attention in March 1962 by AEPF (Aumonerie des Etrangers Protestants en France). The account, though fuller, seems to coincide with the one you received.

Because Sr. Mata's case seemed urgent, we sent him 50.NF in March, 1962 from our special Pablo Casals Fund. We were also able to help him with 50.NF a month in September, October and November, 1962.

In January, 1963 we were fortunate enough to find an American "adopter" for him who has been sending him $10. a month through our office since that date. The adopter also sent him directly $50. when he was hospitalized for fifteen days in February 1963. At that same time he received from the Charite Suedoise (through our Paris representative, Mme. Chatelet) 150.NF, and was given 25.NF in April of this year by the same organization.

These statistics are for your information and in no way meant to suggest that Sr. Mata does not need further assistance; the attention he has received from various quarters would point to the contrary.

P.S. I have made a copy of the translation of Sr. Mata's letter to you and enclose the original and translation which you sent us.

HANNAH ARENDT*
Chairman

HARRISON DE SILVER*
Treasurer

NANCY MACDONALD*
Executive Secretary

JOAN HERBST
FRANCES O'BRIEN
RHODA WALLER
Office Staff

Sponsors
CARMEN ALDECOA*
ROBERT J. ALEXANDER
ROGER BALDWIN
ALFRED H. BARR, JR.
CLAUDE G. BOWERS†
ALEXANDER CALDER
MME. ALBERT CAMUS
ALBERT CAMUS†
ALBERT SPRAGUE COOLIDGE
DOROTHY DAY
JESUS DE GALINDEZ†
MRS. FERNANDO DE LOS RIOS
MARGARET DE SILVER†
JAMES T. FARRELL
ERICH FROMM
MARTIN GERBER
JOSEPH GLAZER
REV. DONALD HARRINGTON
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD
ALFRED KAZIN
JAMES LOEB, JR.
DWIGHT MACDONALD*
MARY McCARTHY
JAMES MERRILL
LEWIS MUMFORD
A. J. MUSTE
LOUIS NELSON
REINHOLD NIEBUHR
MRS. GEORGE ORWELL
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH
SIR HERBERT READ
REV. HERMAN F. REISSIG
MICHAEL ROSS
GEORGE RUBIN
MEYER SCHAPIRO
ADELAIDE SCHULKIND*
RAMON SENDER
GEORGE N. SHUSTER
IGNAZIO SILONE
ROBERT SNYDER
NORMAN THOMAS
ESTEBAN VICENTE
MRS. CHARLES R. WALKER
ROWLAND WATTS
GEORGE WOODCOCK
LEONARD WOODCOCK
CHARLES ZIMMERMAN

Board of Directors
BOWDEN BROADWATER
GENE CLEMES
CARMEN CONCHADO
ERNEST FLEISCHMAN
BERTHA GRUNER
MARTHA HALL
GABRIEL JAVSICAS
YNEZ LYNCH
CHRISTINE MAGRIEL
RUTH MUHLEN
JEANNE McMAHON
ROSE PESOTTA
BETTY THOMPSON

† Deceased

* Board of Directors

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AEPF (CHMADE)

3/62

No. 2804

MATA ALEJANDRE, Alejandro (aka Santos MATA)
83, rue Duhesme

Paris 18

Refugee No. 25597/2190

B. 11/1/87

Widower

Prof. in Spain: Electrical Engineer

Prof. in France: Teacher of mathematics & Spanish

Ed. Assistance: Alloc. spec. for aged workers: 61 NF per mo
Aide soc. 20.20 "
61.20 NF per mo

CW: Volunteered in republican air force; because of his age (49 at that time) he didn't fly but worked at electrical repairs of planes.

To France in Feb. '39 with wife. Reached Paris but since this department was forbidden to refugees they went to Chaudon (Eure & Loire) where they found farm work.

At beginning of World War II he got work in an aviation factory. When the Germans came he & wife went to Pyrenees Orientales (Amelie-les-Bains) where he began giving lessons in math & Spanish.

Wife fell ill in 1945 & died after 4 years of suffering. In June 1953 he returned to Paris, stayed with friends & continued teaching. In January 1959 he got pulmonary congestion & pleurisy. He hasn't been really well since, - subject to bronchial and liver trouble. A year ago he underwent a reasonably severe throat operation. He also now must leave the room where he's living. Doesn't say why. No longer giving lessons.

Requests monthly help if possible.

Name: Alejandro, Santos

Surname: Matas

Born: November 1-1887

City: Madrid (Spain)

Widower.

Profession: Electrical engineer

At the start of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936

I enlisted in the Military Aviation in Asturias voluntarily, until the end of the war, February 1939.

At present my situation is a difficult one. I only
am able to give some Spanish lessons and mathematics, YNEK
very irregularly because of my state of health.

The French Government helps me with a sum of 10.000 (100 francs) old Francs and an occasional food package.

As my possibilities of earning my living decrease,
everything else increases out of proportion.

A.Mata

Signed: A.S.Mata
83, rue Duhesme
Paris 18ème

CURRICULUM VITAE

MARIN-GUERRERO, JOSÉ
CASTILLON, A. M.
FRANCE

BORN 5/26/15 IN SPAIN. SPANISH NATIONALITY.

WIFE: EFIGENIA (NEE CRUZ-HERNANDEZ) BORN 5/11/33 AT MARIQUITA ISAGNEZ, TOLIMA, COLOMBIA

CHILDREN: ALEJANDRO BORN 11/11/49 AT MEDILLIN, COLOMBIA

DIEGO, BORN 1/11/51 AT ARAGOTAGA, COLOMBIA

PEDRO, BORN 5/11/52 AT CUOUTA, COLOMBIA

RITA, BORN 7/16/53 IN PANAMA CITY, PANAMA

PROFESSION: WENT TO THE NAVAL ACADEMY OF SAN FERNANDO, CADIZ, SPAIN.

CAPTAIN IN THE MERCHANT MARINE AND COMMISSIONED NAVAL OFFICER IN THE NAVAL
BASE OF CARTAGENA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR. TRANSFERRED
TO THE BATTLESHIP "JAIME I," MENDEZ NUNEZ CRUISER AS LIEUTENANT IN 1938.

LATER PROMOTED TO LIEUTENANT COMMANDER.

RELIGION: CATHOLIC.

MARRIED IN THE CHURCH OF MERCY (IOLESA DE LA MEROE) IN THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA AND THE MARRIAGE REGISTRY IS IN THE 12TH FOLIO - 33- No. 8.

HISTORY: AT THE END OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, CAPTAIN OF A CORVETTE WHICH WENT TO ENGLAND. IN 1940 HE EMBARKED ON THE LIBERTY CARGO SHIP "SS OMAR CHAPMAN" AND WHEN HE ARRIVED IN NEW YORK WAS INSORIBED IN THE COAST GUARD SERVICE. HIS IDENTIFICATION NUMBER WAS Z-580545-D I AND HIS HOME ADDRESS AT THAT TIME WAS LISTED AS: 810 SOUTH WEST 9TH ST., MIAMI, FLA. (WE HAVE A PHOTOSTAT OF THIS DOCUMENT.) HE WENT THROUGH 5 YEARS OF ACTIVE SERVICE WITH THE U. S. MERCHANT MARINE AND RECEIVED DECORATIONS FROM THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC WAR ZONES AS WELL AS THE INSIGNIA AS A U.S. VETERAN OF WORLD WAR II.

ON THE 20TH OF SEPTEMBER, 1954 HE LEFT PANAMA WITH HIS FAMILY WITH A CONTRACT TO WORK IN CASABLANCA, MOROCCO.

ON 11/10/63 HE LEFT FOR FRANCE, AS THE MOROCCAN GOVERNMENT NO LONGER ALLOWED NEW CONTRACTS TO BE SIGNED BY CAPTAINS AND OFFICERS OF THE MERCHANT MARINE OF EUROPEAN NATIONALITY, LICENSED TO COMMAND BOATS UP TO 10,000 TONS IN THE INTERNATIONAL SERVICE.

HE SPEAKS SPANISH, ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN AND SOME ARABIC.

HE WRITES SPANISH, ENGLISH AND FRENCH.

HE HAS HAD 30 YEARS' EXPERIENCE IN THE MERCHANT MARINE.

POLITICAL IDEAS: REPUBLICAN; DEMOCRATIC; MODERN.

Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc.

80 East 11th Street • New York, N. Y. 10003 • Oregon 4-7451

May 12, 1965.

Dear Louise:

Just a hasty note before I leave for Europe tomorrow. I am enclosing our annual report today and with it go our deepest thanks to you, your Mother and brother for all the wonderful help you gave us during the past year. As you know, we would hardly have survived over the past 12 years without your ready helping hand. I think of you as always being there when we are desperate. And that has been wonderful.

Your Mother's last contribution came in June 1964, so if she can help again now we will be grateful again.

Have a good summer and if there is anything I can do for you in Europe, my address will be: Spanish Refugee Aid, 64 rue de Richelieu, Paris 2. I'll be in England from May 17 to 23: c/o Dachine Rainer, 9 Dilke St., London SW 3 and expect to see de Madariaga if possible.

All the best to you and Victoria,

357

HANNAH ARENDT*
Chairman

HARRISON DE SILVER*
Treasurer

MARGOT KARP
FRANCES O'BRIEN
JANE K. POTTER
Office Staff

Sponsors
CARMEN ALDECOA*
ROBERT J. ALEXANDER
ROGER BALDWIN
ALFRED H. BARR, JR.
CLAUDE G. BOWERS†
ALEXANDER CALDER
MME. ALBERT CAMUS
ALBERT CAMUS†
ALBERT SPRAGUE COOLIDGE
DOROTHY DAY
JESUS DE GALINDEZ†
MRS. FERNANDO DE LOS RIOS
MARGARET DE SILVER†
JAMES T. FARRELL
ERICH FROMM
MARTIN GERBER
JOSEPH GLAZER
REV. DONALD HARRINGTON
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD
ALFRED KAZIN
JAMES LOEB, JR.
DWIGHT MACDONALD*
MARY McCARTHY
JAMES MERRILL
LEWIS MUMFORD
A. J. MUSTE
LOUIS NELSON
REINHOLD NIEBUHR
MRS. GEORGE ORWELL
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH
SIR HERBERT READ
REV. HERMAN F. REISSIG
MICHAEL ROSS†
GEORGE RUBIN
MEYER SCHAPIRO
ADELAIDE SCHULKIND*
RAMON SENDER
GEORGE N. SHUSTER
IGNAZIO SILONE
ROBERT SNYDER
NORMAN THOMAS
ESTEBAN VICENTE
MRS. CHARLES R. WALKER
ROWLAND WATTS
GEORGE WOODCOCK
LEONARD WOODCOCK
CHARLES ZIMMERMAN

Board of Directors
BOWDEN BROADWATER
GENE CLEMES
CARMEN CONCHADO
BERTHA GRUNER
MARTHA HALL
GABRIEL JAVSICAS
JANE KIRSTEIN
RUTH MUHLEN
JEANNE HALL
ROSE PESOTTA
DANIEL ROSENBLATT
BETTY THOMPSON

Counsel
ERNEST FLEISCHMAN

† Deceased

* Board of Directors

Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc.

Room 406 + 80 East 11th Street + New York, N. Y. 10003

OREgon 4-7451

May 28, 1965.

Dear Louise:

I heard from Jane Potter in our New York office that she had sent you a copy of the letter she had received from Charles Sternberg about Jose Marin Guerrero's debt. I asked her to tell you subsequently that I had xxxxxxxx tlked to an organization in London asking them if they could pay it. We haven't heard from them yet but will any dy. Mme. Chatelet in the meantime has talked to Mlle. Follin of Charite Suedoise, who visited the Marins while she was in the South of France in May and she agreed to pay the debt through her committee if the English committee could not do so. She also reported to us about the family.

She says that their situation is really very bad, the children in rags and the father almost suicidal after a terrible winter - he was unable to feed his children properly or buy sufficient fuel to keep them warm. Even in May she found the house where they were living was icy. She bought some new clothing for the children and gave them some money to pay their grocery bill. We are now arranging to get his papers in order so that he can get some help while waiting to emigrate (from the Service Sociale). He had asked the Spanish Republican Government in Exile to help with this many months ago and they seem to have done nothing. Without his refugee papers in order he can get no help and that is why his situation is so desperate now. The International Rescue Committee is going to try and push his emigration through as rapidly as possible. And an advertisement has been put into the newspaper, Nice-Matin, to try and find him work while he is waiting. Mlle. Follin feels that this is a family well worth helping and that the future of the children can be assured if they emigrate.

Thanks so much for offering to help with the debt. I hope the above report will reassure you about the need and worth of this family.

I saw Salvador de Madariaga and Mrs. Romans while I was in Oxford and they both asked to be remembered to you and Victoria.

357

TOULOUSE, 23 de Junio de 1965

IBERICA
Publishing Co. Inc.
NEW - YORK 3. N.Y.
U. S. A.

Muy Srs mios :

Antes de pasar al objeto que me induce mandar-
les las presentes lineas, sirvanse aceptar mi más since-
ro y fraternal saludo.

Aunque tarde, pláceme acusarles recibo de los
libros que tuvieron la amabilidad de mandarme; y de cuya
noble gesta, les quedo profundamente reconocida, tanto
en nombre propio como del organismo que represento.

Dichos libros, esmeradamente escogidos para el
fin a qué están destinados, han pasado a formar parte de
nuestra biblioteca ambulante, reservada única y exclusi-
vamente a los refugiados españoles, viejos y enfermos,
residentes en diferentes centros hospitalarios. El ali-
mento moral que la lectura de dicgo textos les proporcio-
na, junto con la pequeña ayuda material que podemos apor-
tarles, les sirve de gran estímulo para mejor soportar
la situación que la triste suerte les ha deparado.

Rogando tengan la bondad de excusar la demora
en contestarles, repito mi más vivo agradecimiento, junto
con el saludo hondamente fraternal.

SPANISH REFUGEE | AID, INCORPORATED
Association étrangère pour
l'aide aux Réfugiés espagnols
Autorisée par le Ministre de l'Intérieur
13, rue de Thionville

TOULOUSE (H.G)

A. M. Berta.

Dear Mrs. Nancy Macdonald:

You can writing me in English. I understand well.
But I don't write English clear and it's much better for me write it in Spanish.
Now: muchas gracias por su amable carta y el generoso ofrecimiento
Mi libro "Los rehenes del Alcazar de Toledo", si ustedes la piden e
EDITIONS PURDO IRRICO -5, RUE AUBRIOT, PARIS -4-, les remitiran lo
elegantes que deseen. Al conozco en Madrid se produjo en la Presente un
ren revuelo de protesta, pero sin encontrar un flaco historico donde e mor-
derle, replicando con todos los lugares comunes de la levend: y le han
dado tanta importancia que se han visto obligados, para sostener el rito
del heroismo, ha descubrir, nado menos, que al telefonista que escribio la
conversation de la amenaza entre el coronel Moscardo y su hago, abr. a
los 31 años del sumuesto suceso. Desgraciadamente la policia escandaló a per-
sone el libro y no puede venderse mientras perdure el regimen fra jaista,
Ademas, la editorial disone de cortos recursos económicos. Los que publ-
cemos en ella lo hacemos por acclarar la historia casi como única recompen-
sa: el parecer debemos esperar tiempos mejores.

Adiunto un comentario que he escrito de un libro vergonzoso: "La siege
of the Alcazar". Su autor, un norteamericano profesor en Michigan, resulta
tan osada intrepidez que he credo merece laena senalar el tono de
batranas en Iberica magazine, correspondiendo así al ofrecimiento de Miss
Crane. Si quieren en es revista dibujos mios, indinuvenme que tienes
les interesarian, y diligente los hare.

Tambien le mandare a Uf dos pinturas mises nor si pueden venderlas. Aqui la
crisis en todos los sentidos de la pintura artística es esencial.

Peritendole las gracias, Mrs Macdonald, quedo suyo afectuoso.

6, Av Franklin Roosevelt, Paris (8)

Mi asesor para dirigirme a Huelva
es el almirante don Velentin Fuentes.

June 21

Dear Louiee;

I'm writing you in great haste. I don't seem to find 2
seconds for letters. I do think that the Liga people
need that one hundred dollars a month which you said
that you could give them for the rest of the year.
Therefore I am asking Suzanne to send them 100 (this
damned typewriter has no dollar sign) now for June and
if you can send our New York office the rest whenever
it is convenient for you that will be fine.

Encarnacion Chamizo sends her greetings to Victoria and
so do I. I am off to Bonn and Frankfurt on the 24th.
Everybody in my party of 9 has been sick. There is some
sort of virus which has been going the rounds. I saw
Napoleons tomb with Nicky yesterday but that has been the
extent of my sightseeing. Let me know if I can do some-
thing for you. I'll be back in Paris the end of August
and I hope a few days in Septembre.

Calvino is not in Paris so I havent been able to see him.
Trabal says there is no point in counting on him for any-
thing regular. He is interested in saving whatever he has
for what may take place in Spain.

I told the Liga people that the money for the rest of
the year would be from Iberica as you asked but would go
through us.

Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc.

80 East 11th Street • New York, N. Y. 10003 • ORegon 4-7451

May 17, 1971.

Dear Louise:

Here are the refugees we are still helping with your
funds and the amounts they receive per month.

Jose Riquelme $50
Valentin Fuentes 30
Juan Granell 30
Mme. Vve. Diego Martinez 30
Mme. Vve. Luis Varela 30
Luis Quintanilla Isasi 15

We have never had any correspondence with the Varelas except for the letter he sent to you for us in July '59. At that time he was 67, was a commercial agent in Spain and had suffered a heart attack. He died in June of '63. I have on his card that Victoria knew him for many years and that he was responsible for saving many lives of refugees by taking them from Garcia to Portugal.

Quintanilla is an artist, born in 6/13/95 - Santander. He was in the siege of the Alcazar and wrote a book about it "The Hostages of the Alcazar of Toledo". He lives in a former servants room which is rather expensive but it houses him and his paintings. He was in the US for 20 years. He wrote that he was very grateful for your help in 1968 and I believe he needs it.

The others you know about. Let me know if we should make any changes as our quarterly list of adoptions goes out again in April. Hope you can send some money before then too !

Thanks once again for the lunch. It was very pleasant,

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