Feb.26-53.

Dear Mrs. MacDonald,

Comme suite à notre entretien j'ai le
plaisir de vous envoyé ci-joint quelques noms
de personnes qu'à mon avis, vous pouvez ajouter
à la liste de "sponsors".

Ça va sans dire qu'il faut les sonsulter.

Merci de votre aide. Je vous souhaite une
bonne santé et du courage par continuer votre
tâche.

Tres amicalement,

Victoria Kent

Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc.

Room 311 • 45 Astor Place • New York City 3, N. Y.

Honorary Chairman
PABLO CASALS

Chairman
JAMES T. FARRELL

Treasurer
MARGARET DE SILVER

Executive Secretary
NANCY MACDONALD

Sponsors
(preliminary list)

DR. CARMEN ALDECOA

ALBERT CAMUS

LOUISE CRANE

DOROTHY DAY

WALDO FRANK

MRS. ALFRED W. JONES

JAMES LOEB, JR.

DWIGHT MACDONALD

MARY McCARTHY

JAUME MIRAVITLLES

A. J. MUSTE

LOUIS NELSON

REINHOLD NIEBUHR

MRS. GEORGE ORWELL

A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

MICHAEL ROSS

ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR.

GEORGE N. SHUSTER

NORMAN THOMAS

MRS. CHARLES R. WALKER

GEORGE WOODCOCK

CHARLES ZIMMERMAN

June 15, 1953.

Dear Victoria:

First of all, very many thanks for the typewriter and clothes which Louise brought in. I hope to get the typewriter off soon and I know that someone (probably the Palacios family in Montauban) will be very happy to have it. The clothes also are very welcome. Thanks so much.

Secondly - could you translate the enclosed for me. I would appreciate it very much if I could have it back very soon, as I am going off to the country on next Tuesday and want to get this letter mimeographed before I go. I hope it will be possible for you to do it ?

Best regards,

Nancy Macdonald

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Teresa Palacios.
I2, pl. Etats-Unis.
Montauban. (T et G)

Montauban 16 de Enero de 1955.

Madame Louise CRANA.
Publisher of IBERICA.
112 east I9 Stret,
NEW-YORK.

Querida amiga:

Hace muchos días quería haberla escrito,
pero teniendo conocimiento por la Sra. Macdonald, del genero-
so rasgo tenido por V. hacia los refugiados españoles, por
el cual un envío de ropa interior de invierno me había sido
anunciado, he esperado a que éste obrara en mi poder, para
acusarle a V. recibo del mismo y manifestarle mi agradecimien-
to, en nombre propio y en el de mis compatriotas.

Desde hace más de dos años, siempre que algún
Organismo o persona particular que se interesa por los desgra-
ciados refugiados españoles, me preguntaba cual era la necesi-
dad más urgente, invariablemente mi respuesta era la misma,
'ropa interior de invierno', ya que durante todos los meses de
frio, los ancianos de esta localidad me lo solicitan sin des-
canso y esta demanda había llegado a constituir una obsesión
para mí. Por ello querida amiga, puede V. imaginar cual va a
ser mi alegria, al poder al fin satisfacer esta necesidad y
cual será mi agradecimiento hacia V. por su donativo que va a
mitigar el frío de tanto viejito y enfermo crónico como resi-
den en Montauban y que se encuentran en una situación economi-
ca dificil.

Por el Spanish Refugee Aid, ya tendrá V; co-
nocimiento de la obra humanitaria que este Dispensario reali-
za, en el cual se dará asistencia medical gratuita y de auxilio
social a un gran número de refugiados españoles que residen
en esta localidad, sin distinción de ideas políticas, reli-
giosas o filosóficas.

Será para mi muy interesante poder recibir
regularmente la Revista mensual "IBERICA" publicada por Vdes.
Además contribuiré a una mayor divulgación al ponerla con otras
revistas en nuestra Sala de Espera, haciendo así que el gran
número de refugiados españoles que pasa por el Dispensario,
conozcan y puedan informarse debidamente de los muchos puntos
interesantes que la Revista que V. representa expone a la luz
pública, en defensa de las libertades del pueblo español.

Le ruego darle indique el modo de poder hacer
efectivo el importe de la suscripción.

Reiterandole mi agradecimiento, le saluda
bien afectuosamente.

May 23, 1955

The Editors
Iberica
112 E. 19 St.
NYC

Dear Miss Crane and Miss Kent:

I want to call your attention and that of your readers to the
story which appeared in the May 20th issue of the Daily Worker,
newspaper of the Communist Party in America. It stated that
"Pablo Casals, the world famous 'Cellist now living in Prades,
France, sends this urgent letter to the Daily Worker which we
pass on to our readers and supporters". The letter which fol-
lowed was an appeal for funds for Spanish Refugee Aid to help
Spanish Republican refugees. The Daily Worker did not state
that it was a form letter recently mailed to some 14,000 indi-
viduals by Spanish Refugee Aid, a committee located at 80 East
11 St., in New York City, of which Casals is an Honorary Chair-
man and I am Chairman. It also, significantly failed to give
our address. In calling attention to the Daily Worker's use
of Pablo Casals' letter, I wish to point out that Casals is in
no way responsible for the use to which the Daily Worker has
put our form letter and that our organization has nothing to
do with the Communist Party here or abroad and wants no aid
from them.

JTF:nm

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

C O P Y

International Rescue Committee
7, rue Gautier, Geneva

January 23, 1956

Dear Nancy:

Please excuse my delay in replying to your letter of January 7, but I only got around now to calling on the relevant people of the International Red Cross. They gave me the following information:

There are, as you know, two kinds of Spaniards in Russia, the Republicans, who were cut off there in 1939, and the Legion Azul prisoners of war. There exist no separate statistics on them. Approximately two years ago Russia authorized those Spaniards wishing to return to Spain, to do so. Approximately 250 of them went home. From these, details and names could be obtained regarding those remaining in Russia.

The International Red-Cross possesses today verified names and addresses of 196 Spanish prisoners in Russian camps. They don't believe that the numbers of Spaniards still remaining in Russian camps is much higher. According to them it, at no rate, exceeds 300. As those who returned to Spain told, many of their compatriots have died in Russian camps during the last years.

Most of those registered with the International Red-Cross stay at camp No. 43 (near Polma), camp No. 44 and 45 (near Sverdlovsk) some at camp No. 53 in southern Russia, and one in camp No. 24.

The Red-Cross, whenever funds allow, sends them food parcels, which they seem to receive alright. They are very pessimistic about the chances of success of any effort to get them out of Russia. Russian Authorities argue that those who did not take advantage of the possibility to return to Spain thereby expressed their wish to stay in Russia. At any rate nothing can be done with the Russians before some Western country is prepared to receive them.

The Red-Cross people were anxious to know what your projects to help these people are. Of course, they recommended that you send parcels through them. Their standard parcel contains food stuff, clothing, toilet articles and a little tobacco. It costs Sfr. 32. and equals approximately $6.

Please let me know if I can be of any further help. I should be very happy, because your work is really worthwhile, which is more than one can say of many other activities.

SPANISH REFUGEE AID
80 E. 11 St., NYC 3

SPECIALS NEEDED FOR SPANISH REFUGEES

4/28/56

<table><thead><tr><th>Name of refugee</th><th>Situation of refugee</th><th>Need</th><th>Cost in francs</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2">Francisco Barinaga</td><td rowspan="2">Blind and eager to rehabilitate himself so that he can earn a living and help support his wife who is ill.</td><td>Accordian</td><td>40.000</td></tr><tr><td>Trip for free lessons @ 6 months, 6 lessons a month</td><td>40.000</td></tr><tr><td>Mariano Gimenez Hernandez</td><td>Has been reeducated as a tailor. Has heart condition but could work at home if he had tailoring equipment.</td><td>Work tools for tailor</td><td>44.000</td></tr><tr><td>Carmen Martinez</td><td>Very ill</td><td>Mattress</td><td>10.000</td></tr><tr><td>Salvador Astruells</td><td>Was deported by Nazis. Sick, has wife and 2 small children.</td><td>Dental work</td><td>17.000</td></tr><tr><td>Feliciano Iglesias</td><td>He has TB. Wife complete invalid.</td><td>Dental work</td><td>21.100</td></tr><tr><td>Eugenio Simorte</td><td>Left arm amputee. Has wife and 3 small kids. Wife needs dental work.</td><td>Dental work</td><td>15.000</td></tr><tr><td>Angel Callejo</td><td>He is 71, partially paralyzed and heart trouble, wife ill with liver trouble, son deaf-mute attempts to support all 3. Man and wife need dental care.</td><td>Dental work</td><td>24.000</td></tr><tr><td>Laurentino Ruiz</td><td>Right arm amputee, 4 minor children and wife</td><td>Chicken incubator</td><td>30.000</td></tr><tr><td>Casto Ballesta Urrea</td><td>Has had several operations & now has flebitis. Work he now does too hard for him. Could do accounting and copying at home.</td><td>Typewriter</td><td>14.000</td></tr><tr><td>Manuel Vicario Lopez</td><td>Wife seamstress, daughter has TB</td><td>Sewing machine</td><td>35.000</td></tr><tr><td>Quiliano Garcia</td><td>He has TB, wife could sew at home.</td><td>Sewing machine</td><td>35.000</td></tr><tr><td>Ligue des Mutiles</td><td>$100 for 6 months to pay for deficit</td><td></td><td>210.000</td></tr><tr><td>TB & old people</td><td>25 @ $10 a month for 3 months</td><td></td><td>262.500</td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>797.600</td></tr></tbody></table>

or approximately $2,300.

Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc.

Room 421 • 80 East 11th Street • New York City 3, N. Y.

ORegon 4-7451

AN OPEN LETTER TO EVERYBODY

Dear Everybody,

I am writing this letter to whomsoever it may concern, i.e. you. The Spanish Civil War ended eighteen years ago. There are still between 150 and 200 thousand exiles who will not go back. Franco has solemnly promised to amnesty all those who would come back. Why amnesty them when they had committed no crime? Those who have come back - a handful - have sometimes found that Franco's promises are not to be trusted. Lieutenant Colonel Beneyto, for instance, who was shot on November 19th, 1956.

Most of the exiles have made good. They have acquired an independent position sometimes in difficult circumstances; and in some cases - in Mexico, for instance - they have powerfully contributed to the culture and prosperity of their adoptive abode.

But the handicapped ones - by language, trade, age, illness, or other circumstances - have been and are living a hard life.

The Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc. (80 East 11th Street, N.Y.C. 3), founded four years ago, is taking care of them. The Committee needs your help. This concerns you for you are a free citizen of a free country. Help.

Salvador de Madariaga

GEN. LAZARO CARDENAS
PABLO CASALS
Honorary Chairmen

JAMES T. FARRELL
Chairman

MARGARET DE SILVER
Treasurer

NANCY MACDONALD
Executive Secretary

SUZANNE CHATELET
Field Representative

Sponsors

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

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JAMES T. FARRELL
Chairman

MARGARET DE SILVER
Treasurer

Sponsors

Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc.

ORegon 4-7451

August 28, 1957.

Dear Louise:

I wonder if you could send your Spanish edition of Iberica to a Spanish refugee who has written us from Norway and asked for antifascist publications in Spanish. You may have him already as we had sent him a Casals appeal via the Cuadernos list I think. (he has had TB, has wife and 2 small kids and is not well off).

I meant to call you before I got off this summer for my vacation in Wellfleet but I got terribly bogged down with an aunt who broke her leg and was lonely in the hospital. I hope all goes well with you and Victoria and will call you soon when I get back in the fall.

We got a check for $10,000 in June from Mrs. Murray who gave us large checks before. This is the last but it was lovely to have it. I have been indulging in getting all sorts of things for people long on our lists and for once not having to worry through a financially slim summer. I spent a lot of time working up a project for the International Rescue Committee in July only to have them turn it down. Still they may do something later on as there are a number of people in their office who want to see IRC helping Spaniards again. So I shall keep on trying.

All the best,

His name incidentally is: Salvador Palacios Sanchez
Parkveren 12
Greaker, Norway

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Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc.

Room 421 + 80 East 11th Street + New York City 3, N. Y.

ORegon 4-7451

November 26, 1957

Dear Contributor:

I am writing you now so that your gifts can reach our refugees in France by Christmas. Four years ago, at this time, we reported that we had 561 cases needing help; today we have about 2,000. At that time we had collected $7,000 in cash during six months; this year we collected over $25,000 in the same length of time. But it is all gone and we need as much again and more for the coming six months.

During this quarter we are helping 175 families with $10 a month. About 30 of these we must help permanently—they cannot exist without us. For example, there is Francisco R. who writes us:

> "I am still receiving only 5.720 francs a month from the Prefecture. I have no stove, only a tripod on which I cook. I have no electricity, I owe 12 months rent (12.000 francs), an enormous debt for me. Winter is coming and I must buy some wood to warm myself a little. What misery to be poor. Thank you again for the 3 months help. Since I am incurably ill with tuberculosis, do I have the right to be helped permanently?"

We would like to say "Yes," and buy him a stove, and pay his "enormous debt," $30. Can you make it possible by sending your contribution today?
Thank you very much.

James T. Farrell
Chairman

P.S. Please read Nancy Macdonald's report on the other side and send us the names of your friends who may be able to contribute.

GEN. LAZARO CARDENAS

PABLO CASALS
Honorary Chairman

JAMES T. FARRELL
Chairman

MARGARET DE SILVER
Treasurer

YNEZ LYNCH
Office Staff

Sponsors

CARMEN ALDECOA
KATRINA M. BARNES
ALFRED H. BARR, JR.
CLAUDE G. BOWERS
FENNER BROCKWAY
ALBERT CAMUS
HODDING CARTER
DOROTHY DAY
JESUS DE GALINDEZ
SALVADOR DE MADARIAGA
MRS. JOHN DEWEY
WALDO FRANK
MARTIN GERBER
JOSEPH GLAZER
BERNARD GREENHOUSE
REV. DONALD HARRINGTON
JULIUS HOCHMAN
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD
MRS. ALFRED W. JONES
ALFRED KAZIN
PAUL KREBS
JAMES LOEB, JR.
DWIGHT MACDONALD
MARY MCCARTHY
A. J. MUSTE
LOUIS NELSON
REINHOLD NIEBUHR
MRS. GEORGE ORWELL
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH
SIR HERBERT READ
REV. HERMAN F. REISSIG
LAWRENCE ROGIN
MICHAEL ROSS
GEORGE RUBIN
ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR.
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

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Contributions to Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc. are deductible.

# Nancy Macdonald's Report

## What we have done in the past six months

From April through September 1957 Spanish Refugee Aid collected $25,351.92 in cash and goods (including one check for $10,000). This does not include $2,000 allocated by the International Rescue Committee to help our refugees with work tools, or the four bales of much needed blankets sent to our office in Toulouse by the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief in England.

With your gifts we bought 9 sewing machines, 4 hearing aids, made a down payment on a cultivator, paid for 2 stoves, dental care for 3, an accordion, orthopedic shoes, a Lambretta, a recording machine, medicines, debts, eyeglasses, an aviation course, and a trip to the Spanish frontier for an incurably ill man to visit his Mother whom he had not seen for 18 years. This quarter, we are helping 175 families with $10 a month (in November 1953 we were helping 13 families!).

A number of Spanish refugees have been "adopted" by Americans. One "adopter" has been able to collect over $800 for his family from the subscribers of the paper he edits. Another "adopter" writes: "I'll send Senor D. $5 a month, as long as I can. I'm in a spot of trouble right now, and when you are in trouble, I've found out the best thing is to give a lift to someone who is in greater trouble."

## ... and the next six months?

As you see, many have benefited from your money. But it is all gone and there are still many people desperate for help like

Manuel M., who recently fled to France on one leg, a crutch and the clothes on his back. After a number of years in Franco's jails "I decided to quit the Franquist hell and reach freedom. I am good at raising poultry and gardening and know how to make sweaters on a knitting machine. Can you help me lead a decent life and live off my work like other human beings?" ... and Natividad Y., a teacher, who will be 84 on Christmas eve, lives on $14 a month, and is no longer strong enough to work as a presser ... and 60 year old Eduardo A., a tubercular, who needs engravers tools so that he can work at home instead of drawing pictures on the sidewalk for a living ... and Enrique C., who is blind and lives in a hospital but would like to go out sometimes, if he had the money to pay someone to take him.

We also have a long list of special needs: 27 sewing machines, 6 typewriters, an artificial foot, artists materials for 3, debts, beds, work tools, stoves, medicines.

Mariano P. writes us: "a few years ago milk cost 20 francs a liter, now it is 30; rents which were 500 francs a month have gone up to 2 and 3,000; coffee from 600 to 960 francs a kilo, oil from 180 to 245 francs a liter and electricity 200 francs a month to 660. Our 'tiny' pensions remain stationary." Because of the soaring living costs, we must increase our efforts. Please help as much as you can.

I am enclosing my check for $.................... for the Spanish refugees in France. I will undertake to send you $.................... a month as long as I can.

(Please make checks payable to Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc. Contributions are tax deductible.)

Name ....................................................

Address ....................................................

City ............................................ Zone ......... State ....................................

If you have received more than one appeal, please give our circular to a friend.

Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc.

ORegon 4-7451

JAN 13 1958

January 9, 1958.

Dear Louise:

Very many thanks for the wonderful check. As always it
is most welcome. We never have any problems about spending
money. There is a bottomless pit of need as far as I can
see. In any case, I believe it is well spent and many people
are grateful for the odds and ends of help that we can dole
out. Our gratitude to you for being part of our backbone
and life's blood J If your Mother and Brother can help too,
we shall be happy.

Here is the name of the man who would like books and magazines in Spanish and English:

Santiago Blanco Otamendi
Chambre 21, Salle Jacques Arnaud
Sana de Purpan, Toulouse, H.G.
France

He was an office worker in Spain and a metalurgical worker in France. He is 48, single and has been in the hospital for 10 months with TB. The MD says his condition is hopeful but it will be a long pull. Anything you could send him would be very much appreciated I am sure. Purpan is the most modern of the hospitals in Toulouse. There are other Spaniards there too so I am sure anything you send would be passed around with interest.

Again many thanks and best wishes for the New Year to you,
Victoria and Vernon,

GEN. LAZARO CARDENAS

PABLO CASALS

Honorary Chairmen

JAMES T. FARRELL

Chairman

MARGARET DE SILVER

Treasurer

NANCY MACDONALD

Executive Secretary

YNEZ LYNCH

Office Staff

SUZANNE CHATELET

Field Representative

Sponsors

CARMEN ALDECOA

KATRINA M. BARNES

ALFRED H. BARR, JR.

CLAUDE G. BOWERS

FENNER BROCKWAY

ALBERT CAMUS

HODDING CARTER

DOROTHY DAY

JESUS DE GALINDEZ

SALVADOR DE MADARIAGA

MRS. JOHN DEWEY

WALDO FRANK

MARTIN GERBER

JOSEPH GLAZER

BERNARD GREENHOUSE

REV. DONALD HARRINGTON

JULIUS HOCHMAN

CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

MRS. ALFRED W. JONES

ALFRED KAZIN

PAUL KREBS

JAMES LOEB, JR.

DWIGHT MACDONALD

MARY MCCARTHY

A. J. MUSTE

LOUIS NELSON

REINHOLD NIEBUHR

MRS. GEORGE ORWELL

A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

SIR HERBERT READ

REV. HERMAN F. REISSIG

LAWRENCE ROGIN

MICHAEL ROSS

GEORGE RUBIN

ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR.

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

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LIGUE DES MUTILES ET INVALIDES DE LA GUERRE D'ESPAGNE EN EXIL
Comité National

1, rue Fontaine-au-Roi - PARIS XIe.

Réf. 70/58 IA.

Paris, le 15 janvier 1958.

Mademoiselle CRANE
aux bons soins de Madame Macdonald
NEW YORK

Mademoiselle:

Dans les tous premiers jours de cette nouvelle année 1958,
nous avons l'honneur de venir vous exprimer nos meilleurs voeux, pour
que le bonheur, la santé et la joie vous comblent tout le long de ce
Nouvel An.

Nous voulons aussi vous faire part de toute notre reconnaissance
par l'aide que vous continuez d'apporter à notre Organisation, aide qui
nous donne la possibilité de nous occuper constamment du triste sort
de nos compatriotes mutilés et invalides, et de faire tout notre possi-
ble pour améliorer leur sort, résoudre leurs problèmes et faire face
à toutes les questions qui se posent à notre organisme de solidarité.

Nous vous prions de croire à la reconnaissance de l'ensemble de
notre collectivité, ainsi qu'à l'assurance de notre considération la
plus distinguée.

P/Le Comité National
Le Secrétaire:

A. Trabal

Spanish Refugee Aid
80 E. 11 St., NYC 3

June 16, 1958.

SPECIAL REQUESTS PAID FOR WITH MONEY RECEIVED

FROM MRS. W. MURRAY CRANE AND MR. STEPHEN CRANE

| Name of Person | Physical condition | Need | Amount sent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Felipe Encabo | TB - just out of hospital and had only bed for wife and self | Bedstead | 4.000 fr. |
| Clemente Mangado | TB - still in Sana | Dental | 40.000 " |
| Francisco Reguera | TB | Stove | 15.000 " |
| Mlle Mercedes Latro | Father very ill, had to be operated on in clinic. | Debt | 15.000 " |
| Cipriano Robles | Writer - has TB | Stove & chairs | 42.000 " |
| Magi Balsells | Sick in old people's home | Paints | 8.000 " |
| Benito Rives | TB & "mutile" | Work tools | 15.000 " |
| Francisco Pedrosa | TB - married | Bed & mattress | 23.130 " |
| Mme. Victor Gutierrez | Husband has TB - 4 small children | Cot | 19.000 " |
| Jose Moreno | "Mutile" - 4 in family sleeping in one bed | Bed | 15.000 " |
| Agustin Cruz | "Mutile" | Dental | 24.000 " |
| Valeriano Gonzalez | "Mutile" - artisan | Paints | 51.271 " |
| Francisco Forcadell | Painter, deaf, wife and 2 small children | Paints | 50.000 " |
| Antonio Garcia Lamolla | Painter - 5 children | Paints | 50.000 " |
| Manuel Camps vicens | Painter - ill | Paints | 50.000 " |
| Manuel Santos | Young man, father unable to help because ill | School bks and tools | 9.600 " |
| Mlle Eugenio Martin | Student, father unable to help | Glasses | 9.500 " |
| Rufino Gimenez | TB - in Sana | Glasses | 2.400 " |
| Armando Alvarez Tota | TB - sick child | 2 mattresses | 32.730 " |
| Dr. Carmen Canellas | Recently fled from Spain | | 12.600 " |
| Ramon Vhladas | " " " " | | 12.600 " |
| Francisco Farreras | " " " " | | 12.600 " |
|  |  |  | 513.431 " |
|  | On hand |  | 151.069 " |
|  | $1,500 @ 443 francs to the $ |  | 664.500 " |

M. Manuel Camps, 70 Quai de Tounis, Toulouse, H.G., France

XIIIIIIxk6yxxi955x

J'ai recu il y a quelques jours votre aide de 50.000 frcs.
destines pour l'achat de materiel pour lequel je me trouve pas
de paroles pour vous en remercier.

Precisement ces jours la je m'etais engage a une exposition
particuliere de mes oeuvres sans meme savoir en cas de ne
rien vendre, car Toulouse traverse une crise tres aigue,
comment je m'aurais arrange pour colmater les depenses superi-
eures a 60.000 frcs. pour frais de salle, cadres, lumiere, etc.

Quand Mme. Berta pendant mon exposition m'a communique votre aide tout a change et j'ai pu recevoir les gents sans aucune ombre d'angoisse.

Et maintenant je peux vous dire que j'ai couvert toutes les
depenses grace a deux ventes, entre elles un tableau qui m'a
ete achete par la ville de Toulouse pour le musee des Agustins
et que la quantite que j'ai recu de vous je l'ai converti en
entier pour acheter 150 tubes de couleur, 20 toiles et quelques
pinceaux car j'ai pris la galerie pour l'année prochaine et en
consequence il me faudra travailler dur pour produire une
minimum de trente tableaux.

Si j'ai bien compris vous serez de passage a Toulouse dans
quelques temps et je serai tres heureux de pouvoir vous saluer
et en meme temps de vous montrer mes travaux pour vous rendre
conte personellement de l'importance et l'emploi de votre
aide a mon egart.

Veulliez, chere Madame, recevoir mes sentiments les plus agrees,

Campsvicens

Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura
104 Blvd. Haussmann, Paris 8

Letter from Julian Gorkin addressed to Nancy Macdonald and James T. Farrell

Paris le 2 juin 1958.

Mes chers amis,

Je viens de rentrer d'une longue tournee latino-americaine et je me trouve devant une aggravation serieuse de la situation espagnole. D'un cote les arrestations se multiplient a l'interieur surtout d'elements intellectuels et des etudiants, certaines d'anciens phalangistes qui ont rompu avec le regime et preconisant une reconciliation pour la liberte democraticque de l'Espagne. D'autres elements, fuyant une arrestation et un proces certain, fuient l'Espagne et nous arrivent en France demunis de moyens. Enfin, traîd le plus grave de la situation, les communistes sont en train de travailler tres serieusement et habillement et avec beaucoup de moyens surtout les millieux intellectuels, les phalangistes et les elements des syndicats au nom d'une union nationale pour "l'indépendance" (neutralité) de l'Espagne contre les USA et l'Europe occidentale. Voila tres brièvement un petit tableau de la situation.

Nous savons l'estructure des vieux partis dans l'emigration et chacun de ces partis aide leurs militants a l'interieur quand ils sont emprisonnes, a l'extérieur quand ils sont forces de fuire. Mais la plupart des résistants actuels arretés au fuyant l'Espagne n'appartient à aucun de ces partis. Nous sommes décidés quelqu'uns de nous comme Madariaga, Araquistain et moi-même a constituer une commission pour accueillir ceux qui nous arrivent et aider dans la mesure du possible ceux qui tombent en Espagne et leurs familles. Par exemple, deux des dirigeants de la résistance en Catalogne M. Ramon Viladas et M. Francisco Farreras, avocat et ancien professeur a Barcelona, se trouvent a Paris fuyant une condensation. Les deux sont maries et ont des enfants soit a Barcelona soit a Andorre. Je m'adresse à vous vous posant une question: Est-ce que votre Comité est en mesure d'apporter une aide aux persecutes de l'interieur et a ceux qui sont forces d'emigrer surtout jusqu'à ce que nous reussirons à reunir d'autres moyens ? Je vous prierai d'examiner le plus rapidement possible cette question et de m'y reprendre en tenant compte de ces faits: que les communistes disposent d'organismes d'aide et de beaucoup de moyens et nous en sommes dépourvus.

Croyez- moi toujours bien amicalement votre

Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc.

Room 421 + 80 East 11th Street + New York City 3. N. Y.

ORegion 4-7451

May 15, 1959

Dear Friend:

Spanish Refugee Aid completed six years of work on March 31. Our receipts for this past year were over $67,000—the highest total yet reached. This included $10,000 from an appeal sent out in honor of Pablo Casals' 82nd birthday, and he writes that he is “very happy and touched.” I was elected Chairman of SRA in November and I want to thank everyone who contributed and to beg those who haven't yet done so to answer this spring appeal.

We now have about 1,600 active cases: 300 with tuberculosis, 175 disabled veterans of the Spanish Civil War, 625 seriously ill. We give steady help to a few people whose need is desperate. The others we are still forced to help in rotation. But our great concern is for the 400 old people on our lists. Mme. Chatelet, our Perpignan representative, has just written us about them: “they are dying of hunger, badly housed without enough heat, and in great solitude. And these are the people who gave everything to the free world—their lives, their jobs, their enthusiasm, their faith. Their bitterness and despair is immense.” She has been occupied recently with old Mme N., who has had to have both eyes operated on simultaneously to avoid going blind.

"Fortunately, there is a young surgeon in a clinic here who is good and disinterested, and he operated on Mme. N. without charge. Everybody made a sacrifice. The hospital charged a minimum and let Mr. N. stay with his wife. The anaesthetist charged half-price, 5000 francs. The Casals fund gave 15.000 francs and SRA 17.000. Thus 5 persons collaborated to make the operation possible. It turned out well and Mme. N. has gone home. I've had to go see the poor lady, then to the hospital to pay her bill. The old people are in a terrible perplexity because their landlord wants to evict them. Sad at their age to have such anxieties."

The heartening element in this story is the cooperative energy brought to bear. You who have helped us will appreciate that and will find a great deal of interest in the reports of Margaret De Silver and Nancy Macdonald, which relate, in greater detail, the concrete work of Spanish Refugee Aid.

Please do not forget to help again this spring.

With warmest thanks,

Mary McCarthy
Chairman

GEN. LAZARO CARDENAS

PABLO CASALS

Honorary Chairmen

MARY McCARTHY

Chairman

MARGARET DE SILVER

Treasurer

NANCY MACDONALD

Executive Secretary

YNEZ LYNCH

EVALYN STEINBOCK

Office Staff

SUZANNE CHATELET

Field Representative

Sponsors

CARMEN ALDECOA

KATRINA M. BARNES

ALFRED H. BARR, JR.

CLAUDE G. BOWERS*

FENNER BROCKWAY

ALBERT CAMUS

HODDING CARTER

DOROTHY DAY

JESUS DE GALINDEZ*

SALVADOR DE MADARIAGA

MRS. JOHN DEWEY

JAMES T. FARRELL

WALDO FRANK

MARTIN GERBER

JOSEPH GLAZER

BERNARD GREENHOUSE

REV. DONALD HARRINGTON

JULIUS HOCHMAN

CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

MRS. ALFRED W. JONES

ALFRED KAZIN

PAUL KREBS

JAMES LOEB, JR.

DWIGHT MACDONALD

A. J. MUSTE

LOUIS NELSON

REINHOLD NIEBUHR

MRS. GEORGE ORWELL

A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

SIR HERBERT READ

REV. HERMAN F. REISSIG

LAWRENCE ROGIN

MICHAEL ROSS

GEORGE RUBIN

ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR.

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

357

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# SPANISH REFUGEE AID'S SIXTH YEAR

## CONTRIBUTIONS AND "ADOPTIONS"

When Spanish Refugee Aid started its work 6 years ago, our friends were pessimistic. They said: "No one is interested—nothing can be done—the Spanish Civil War and its refugees are dead issues." So we are always impressed at the end of our year when we add up the $5, see what we have received and what you have helped us accomplish. In 6 years $256,000 has been what we have received and money and goods sent directly to "adopted" refugees (almost $3,000 this year), and surplus products which have been donated from time to time.

Two friendly committees have been formed in Germany (Deutsches Komitee Zur Hilfe für demokratische spanische Fluchtlinge) and in Switzerland (Aide aux réfugiés espagnols). From Germany we have received 5,084 in cash and 2,253 worth of clothes (included in this amount were 10 hearing aids and a typewriter). From Switzerland we received $823 in cash and $486 worth of clothing. The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief sent us $280 in cash and $2,794 worth of clothing and have promised us $1,400 in the next few weeks.

Here is what some of our contributors have to say:

"At 89 I am happy and warm and think of dear people in need. A retired teacher, I enclose $2 to help."

"I am enclosing a check for $120 for my year's contribution. . . . I would like you to know I do it in the memory of my late husband, Camille Cianfarra who did a great deal in his work as a newspaperman to help the cause of a free Spain."

D. Martin Niemoller sent $25. . . . A Friends Meeting sent $98.50 collected for a Hungarian Freedom Fighter who did not arrive, so they decided the money should be used for "others who have also sacrificed for freedom."

"adopters" and "adoptees"

We now have 53 families "adopted" and getting help varying from $2 to $20 a month and received 53 families "adopted" and getting help varying from $2 to $20 a month and then to a new list of 200. In addition to the patients mentioned in the Montauban hospital, we have helped twice during the past year approximately 300 individuals in hospitals with 1,000 francs apiece—some living together in large rest homes like the one at Hyères, where there are 54 Spaniards, others isolated and alone in small village Hospitals and Sanatoriums.

Miss H., who "adopted" Dr. D. and his wife and 6 children in 1956 writes: "Last summer I visited my family in France and was delighted with them and it has increased a general warm relationship. The father has been incapacitated (tuberculosis and a rheumatic heart) but retains wit and charm. We maintain a close correspondence. I have sent 6 packages of clothes and $175 since last notifying you."

Those of you who remember Fulgencio S. from our earlier reports will be glad to hear that we had a postcard from him and his "adopters" last summer from France, which said: "Fulgencio is doing fine, has quite a bit of work and is developing his little establishment (electrical shop) nicely, and wishes me to tell you how much he appreciates your interest in him and the committee's generous help."

Hugh D. wrote us: "Perhaps there is a scholar among these men and women? I would be very happy to send $10 a month, write, supply books, and do anything to make any one feel a human bond from an American who owes them so much." We sent him the name of a Professor of Cultural History and the 'adopter' wrote: "I can use his skills. I am doing an introduction to the Maxims of La Rochefoucauld and have asked Mr. R. to collect Spanish proverbs, maxims, etc. for me as I do not know Spanish. Perhaps there are other scholars who could 'adopt' some of your aging men and women who want to do something and not depend on 'charity' to survive?"

## OUR WORK IN FRANCE

As you probably know, in France we have three offices in Perpignan, Toulouse and Montauban, the centers where most of the Spanish refugees live. Mme. Teresa Palacios, who works for us in the Spanish Republican Red Cross in Montauban, has written us a short report of her work during the past year. She says:

"The Dispensary is open every day from 3 to 5 P.M., except for holidays. Here we give advice and moral support, which is so much needed by the many refugees in the Department of Tarn and Garonne. We take all necessary measures for getting pensions,

free medical assistance and other benefits, and are in close touch with the Relief Department of the Mayor's Office and the 'Prefecture'. We translate Spanish documents into French, interpret, help obtain Identity Cards, Residence permits, Change-of-domicile permits, required by the police from political refugees. We arrange for hospitalization and burials for those who have no family in France. Every week we visit the Spanish refugees in the Hospital (12 this month) and once a month give each of them 1.200 francs from the funds of SRA. We also visit many sick and old people outside the hospital.

"With the clothing received from the U.S., New Zealand and Switzerland, we have helped 214 families. The most important items given were 48 blankets, 83 women's coats, 156 dresses, 41 overcoats, 24 men's suits, 70 jackets and 149 pair of pants. In January, thanks to SRA, we gave 2.000 francs apiece to 55 old people (over 60 years of age) for coal and wood. The problem of heat is a very weighty one in the tiny budgets of these unfortunate aged people. We look into requests for help and recommend those who need and deserve it, to your New York office.

"Before closing I should like to ask for something which the old people need desperately for next winter—woolen underclothes (drawers and shirts). I am present when these people undress and I know that this request is more than justified."

Besides the local work that is carried on by our representatives, money orders of $10 apiece are sent every month from Perpignan to approximately 200 families who are helped for 3 months and then to a new list of 200. In addition to the patients mentioned in the Montauban hospital, we have helped twice during the past year approximately 300 individuals in hospitals with 1,000 francs apiece—some living together in large rest homes like the one at Hyères, where there are 54 Spaniards, others isolated and alone in small village Hospitals and Sanatoriums.

We have also bought or paid for 9 beds and mattresses, 5 stoves, 6 sewing machines, dental work for 14, 6 work tools, 3 pairs of eyeglasses, medical debts for 9, 1 pair of orthopedic shoes, $2 for a birthday present for 10 year old Lolita P. who had never had one, a soutane, 1 artificial hand, sheets and pillow cases and a special grant of 50.000 francs apiece to four artists for paints.

We are helping a few people who recently left Spain for political reasons: Mr. X. who reached France after spending 19 years in Franco's prisons in frightful conditions: Mr. Y. who was active in the Spanish underground for years but had to flee in 1958 after refusing to become a soldier in Franco's army and who lost his feet and part of his hands from frostbite while crossing the frontier.

## AND OUR REFUGEES SPEAK

"I received the 50.000 francs for paints and I hardly know how to thank you. I had just arranged for an exhibition of my works in Toulouse and was worrying about paying for the hall, lights, frames, etc. if I didn't sell anything. When Mme. Berta told me about your gift, everything was changed. I met the people, who came to see my paintings, without a shade of anguish and I sold 2 paintings (one to the Museum). Now I have bought 150 tubes of paint, 20 canvasses and a few paintbrushes and have arranged for another exhibition next year."

"Dear Madame: I would like to give you my personal thanks for the good you have done me in not abandoning me. This is not possible because of the distance. But the help which you send me every month has made life less difficult. I will be 80 in January and it seems only a short while ago that I was a child running about in school. Now, however, I am slowly going towards death, which I contemplate with serenity and calm. My only regret is that I could not return to my dear country. Affectionately, Mariano F." (a school teacher)

"Dear Friends: We have received the 9.200 francs which you promised us and we see that your committee really helps effectively. My wife, who loves me very much, is astonished that there are still humanitarianists in the world (she has suffered a great deal and no longer be believed in anything). Now she does nothing but talk of you. I am beginning to live again despite my illness. I am very happy with my wife. I have a FAMILY. I thank you from the bottom of my heart and if I ever go home, to my Country, I shall shout aloud that you helped in the most difficult moments." (from Juan R., who had been in the hospital for 8 years with TB and who came out to get married to a Frenchwoman who was also sick in the hospital).

We join with them in thanking you for all you have done and hope you will be able to continue to help these refugees who need and appreciate it so much.

Nancy Macdonald
Executive Secretary

SPANISH REFUGEE AID, Inc.

Financial Report

April 1, 1958 — March 31, 1959

RECEIPTS

<table><tbody><tr><td>Cash Contributions—U.S.A.</td><td>$48,283.79</td></tr><tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;—Europe</td><td>6,152.16</td></tr><tr><td>Clothes and Other Contributions in Kind—U.S.A.</td><td>3,934.27</td></tr><tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;—Europe</td><td>6,363.52</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>$64,733.74</td></tr><tr><td>Adoptions—Cash and Clothes sent directly to refugees</td><td>2,975.00</td></tr><tr><td>Total Receipts</td><td>$67,708.74</td></tr></tbody></table>

DISBURSEMENTS: Relief

<table><tbody><tr><td>1) In Cash</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Dispensaire de la Croix Rouge—Moutauban</td><td>$ 1,200.00</td></tr><tr><td>Solidarite Internationale Antifasciste</td><td>180.00</td></tr><tr><td>Ligue des Mutiles</td><td>1,200.00</td></tr><tr><td>Pablo Casals Fund</td><td>1,740.00</td></tr><tr><td>General Assistance</td><td>29,060.66</td></tr><tr><td>Purchases—Goods in Kind (sewing machines, work tools, dentures, etc.)</td><td>4,569.72</td></tr><tr><td>Emergency Fund</td><td>632.00</td></tr><tr><td>Cost of Shipping and Handling</td><td>721.03</td></tr><tr><td>Other Program Expenses (60% of salaries of Executive Director and Staff are applied to programs)</td><td>3,178.63</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>$42,482.04</td></tr><tr><td>2) In Kind—Clothes and Other Goods</td><td>$10,297.79</td></tr><tr><td>3) In Adoptions—directly to refugees</td><td>$ 2,975.00</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>$55,754.83</td></tr></tbody></table>

DISBURSEMENTS: General and Administrative Expenses

<table><tbody><tr><td>Salaries</td><td>$ 1,947.72</td></tr><tr><td>Rent & Light</td><td>567.72</td></tr><tr><td>Telephone & Telegraph</td><td>173.83</td></tr><tr><td>Postage & Express</td><td>585.47</td></tr><tr><td>Supplies & Equipment</td><td>379.49</td></tr><tr><td>Printing & Lettershop</td><td>8,443.92</td></tr><tr><td>Taxes</td><td>108.60</td></tr><tr><td>Bank Charges, Audit & Miscellaneous</td><td>242.00</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>$12,448.75</td></tr><tr><td>Total Disbursements</td><td>$68,203.58</td></tr><tr><td>Balance on hand 3/31/59</td><td>575.71</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>$68,779.29</td></tr><tr><td>Total Receipts</td><td>$67,708.74</td></tr><tr><td>Surplus 4/1/58</td><td>1,070.55</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>$68,779.29</td></tr></tbody></table>

Margaret De Silver
Treasurer

Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc.

OR egon 4-7451

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 15, 1959

Letter to the Editor

We want to call the attention of your readers to the
FORGOTTEN REFUGEES. A terrible silence surrounds them:
there is never a mention of their continued plight, their
right to be included in immigration proposals as displaced
persons. People do not know that they are still alive and,
in justice, should be among the first to be helped. I am
referring to the Spaniards who fought through three terrible
Civil War years to defend their Republic against Franco and
the fascists, who fled to France and lived through five years
of concentration camps, deportation, Nazi labor battalions,
and have survived since then on the barest minimum income
(often as little as $10 a month).

During World Refugee Year which starts July 1st, we
hope that this silence will be broken. There are some 115,-
000 Spanish Republicans living in France and among these
there are 4,000 over the age of 65, 3,000 chronically ill,
3,500 survivors of German concentration camps and 5,000
disabled in World War II.

Spanish Refugee Aid at 80 East 11th Street, New York
3, N. Y., was set up in April 1953, with Pablo Casals and
General Lazaro Cardenas as Honorary Chairmen, to help these
refugees. It has just completed its sixth year and has col-
lected $256,000 in cash and clothing for these forgotten
heroes and heroines of our time. But this was not nearly
enough to help the thousands of old, sick and disabled vet-
erans of the first fight against fascism. They need and
deserve your attention. Please let us hear from you.

Mary McCarthy, Chairman

MARY McCARTHY
Chairman

MARGARET DE SILVER
Treasurer

YNEZ LYNCH
Office Staff

Sponsors

CARMEN ALDECOA
KATRINA M. BARNES
ALFRED H. BARR, JR.
CLAUDE G. BOWERS*
FENNER BROCKWAY
ALBERT CAMUS
HODDING CARTER
DOROTHY DAY
JESUS DE GALINDEZ*
SALVADOR DE MADARIAGA
MRS. JOHN DEWEY
JAMES T. FARRELL
WALDO FRANK
MARTIN GERBER
JOSEPH GLAZER
BERNARD GREENHOUSE
REV. DONALD HARRINGTON
JULIUS HOCHMAN
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD
MRS. ALFRED W. JONES
ALFRED KAZIN
PAUL KREBS
JAMES LOEB, JR.\ DWIGHT MACDONALD
A. J. MUSTE
LOUIS NELSON
REINHOLD NIEBUHR
MRS. GEORGE ORWELL
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH
SIR HERBERT READ
REV. HERMAN F. REISSIG
LAWRENCE ROGIN
MICHAEL ROSS
GEORGE RUBIN
ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR.
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

357

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

Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc.

OREgon 4-7451

May 15, 1959

Dear Friend:

We now have about 1,600 active cases: 300 with tuberculosis, 175 disabled veterans of the Spanish Civil War, 625 seriously ill. We give steady help to a few people whose need is desperate. The others we are still forced to help in rotation. But our great concern is for the 400 old people on our lists. Mme. Chatelet, our Perpignan representative, has just written us about them: "they are dying of hunger, badly housed without enough heat, and in great solitude. And these are the people who gave everything to the free world—their lives, their jobs, their enthusiasm, their faith. Their bitterness and despair is immense." She has been occupied recently with old Mme N., who has had to have both eyes operated on simultaneously to avoid going blind.

With warmest thanks,

Mary McCarthy
Chairman

GEN. LAZARO CARDENAS

PABLO CASALS

Honorary Chairmen

MARY McCARTHY

Chairman

MARGARET DE SILVER

Treasurer

NANCY MACDONALD

Executive Secretary

YNEZ LYNCH

EVALYN STEINBOCK

Office Staff

SUZANNE CHATELET

Field Representative

Sponsors

CARMEN ALDECOA

KATRINA M. BARNES

ALFRED H. BARR, JR.

CLAUDE G. BOWERS*

FENNER BROCKWAY

ALBERT CAMUS

HOODING CARTER

DOROTHY DAY

JESUS DE GALINDEZ*

SALVADOR DE MADARIAGA

MRS. JOHN DEWEY

JAMES T. FARRELL

WALDO FRANK

MARTIN GERBER

JOSEPH GLAZER

BERNARD GREENHOUSE

REV. DONALD HARRINGTON

JULIUS HOCHMAN

CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

MRS. ALFRED W. JONES

ALFRED KAZIN

PAUL KREBS

JAMES LOEB, JR.

DWIGHT MACDONALD

A. J. MUSTE

LOUIS NELSON

REINHOLD NIEBUHR

MRS. GEORGE ORWELL

A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

SIR HERBERT READ

REV. HERMAN F. REISSIG

LAWRENCE ROGIN

MICHAEL ROSS

GEORGE RUBIN

ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR.

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

357

When Spanish Refugee Aid started its work 6 years ago, our friends were pessimistic. They said: "No one is interested—nothing can be done—the Spanish Civil War and its refugees are dead issues." So we are always impressed at the end of our year when we add up the $8, see what we have received and what you have helped us accomplish. In 6 years $256,000 has been contributed and this does not include money and goods sent directly to "adopted" refugees (almost $3,000 this year), and surplus products which have been donated from time to time.

Two friendly committees have been formed in Germany (Deutsches Komitee Zur Hilfe für demokratische panäsische Flüchtlinge) and in Switzerland (Aide aux réfugiés espagnols). From Germany we have received $5,034 in cash and $2,253 worth of clothes (included in this amount were 10 hearing aids and a typewriter). From Switzerland we received $823 in cash and $486 worth of clothing. The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief sent us $280 in cash and $2,794 worth of clothing and have promised us $1,400 in the next few weeks.

"I am enclosing a check for $120 for my year's contribution. ... I would like you to know I do it in the memory of my late husband, Camille Cianfarra who did a great deal in his work as a newspaperman to help the cause of a free Spain."

D. Martin Niemoller sent $25. ... A Friends Meeting sent $98.50 collected for a Hungarian Freedom Fighter who did not arrive, so they decided the money should be used for "others who have also sacrificed for freedom."

"adopters" and "adoptees"

We now have 53 families "adopted" and getting help varying from $2 to $20 a month and clothes, or irregular gifts of money and food. In all they received $2,435 in cash during the past year, plus 31 boxes of clothes and 5 boxes of food and vitamins. In addition 20 cases were "adopted" and helped regularly through SRA.

Those of you who remember Fulgencio S. from our earlier reports will be glad to hear we had a postcard from him and his "adopters" last summer from France, which said: "Fulgencio is doing fine, has quite a bit of work and is developing his little establishment (electrical shop) nicely, and wishes me to tell you how much he appreciates your interest in him and the committee's generous help."

Hugh D. wrote us: "Perhaps there is a scholar among these men and women? I would be very happy to send $10 a month, write, supply books, and do anything to make anyone feel a human bond from an American who owes them so much." We sent him the name of a Professor of Cultural History and the "adopter" wrote: "I can use his skills. I am doing an introduction to the Maxims of La Rochefoucauld and have asked Mr. R. to collect Spanish proverbs, maxims, etc. for me as I do not know Spanish. Perhaps there are other scholars who could 'adopt' some of your aging men and women who want to do something and not depend on 'charity' to survive?"

## OUR WORK IN FRANCE

"With the clothing received from the U.S., New Zealand and Switzerland, we have helped 214 families. The most important items given were 48 blankets, 83 women's coats, 156 dresses, 41 overcoats, 24 men's suits, 70 jackets and 149 pair of pants. In January, thanks to SRA, we gave 2.000 francs apiece to 55 old people (over 60 years of age) for coal and wood. The problem of heat is a very heavy one in the tiny budgets of these unfortunate aged people. We look into requests for help and recommend those who need and deserve it, to your New York office.

"Before closing I should like to ask for something which the old people need desperately for next winter—woolen underclothes (drawers and shirts). I order most when these people undress and I know that this request is more than justified."

Besides the local work that is carried on by our representatives, money orders of $10 apiece are sent every month from Perpignan to approximately 200 families who are helped for 3 months and then to a new list of 200. In addition to the patients mentioned in the Montauban hospital, we have helped twice during the past year approximately 300 individuals in hospitals with 1.000 francs apiece—some living together in large rest homes like the one at Hyères, where there are 54 Spaniards, others isolated and alone in small village Hospitals and Sanatoriums.

We have also bought or paid for 9 beds and mattresses, 5 stoves, 6 sewing machines, dental work for 14, 6 work tools, 3 pairs of eyeglasses, medical debts for 9, 1 pair of orthopedic shoes, $2 for a birthday present for 10 year old Lolita P., who had never had one, a soutane, 1 artificial hand, sheets and pillow cases and a special grant of 50.000 francs apiece to four artists for paints.

## AND OUR REFUGEES SPEAK

"Dear Friends: We have received the 9.200 francs which you promised us and we see that your committee really helps effectively. My wife, who loves me very much, is astonished that there are still humanitarians in the world (she has suffered a great deal and no longer believe in anything). Now she does nothing but talk of you. I am beginning to live again despite my illness. I am very happy with my wife. I have a FAMILY. I thank you from the bottom of my heart and if I ever go home, to my Country, I shall shout aloud that you helped in the most difficult moments." (from Juan R., who had been in the hospital for 8 years with TB and who came out to get married to a Frenchwoman who was also sick in the hospital).

SPANISH REFUGEE AID, Inc.

Financial Report

RECEIPTS

<table><tbody><tr><td>Cash Contributions—U.S.A.</td><td>$48,283.79</td></tr><tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;—Europe</td><td>6,152.16</td></tr><tr><td>Clothes and Other Contributions in Kind—U.S.A.</td><td>3,934.27</td></tr><tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;—Europe</td><td>6,363.52</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>$64,733.74</td></tr><tr><td>Adoptions—Cash and Clothes sent directly to refugees</td><td>2,975.00</td></tr><tr><td>Total Receipts</td><td>$67,708.74</td></tr></tbody></table>

DISBURSEMENTS: Relief

1) In Cash

<table><tbody><tr><td>Dispensaire de la Croix Rouge—Moutauban</td><td>$ 1,200.00</td></tr><tr><td>Solidarite Internationale Antifasciste</td><td>180.00</td></tr><tr><td>Ligue des Mutiles</td><td>1,200.00</td></tr><tr><td>Pablo Casals Fund</td><td>1,740.00</td></tr><tr><td>General Assistance</td><td>29,060.66</td></tr><tr><td>Purchases—Goods in Kind (sewing machines, work tools, dentures, etc.)</td><td>4,569.72</td></tr><tr><td>Emergency Fund</td><td>632.00</td></tr><tr><td>Cost of Shipping and Handling</td><td>721.03</td></tr><tr><td>Other Program Expenses (60% of salaries of Executive Director and Staff are applied to programs)</td><td>3,178.63</td></tr></tbody></table>

$42,482.04

$10,297.79

$10,297.79

$ 2,975.00

$ 2,975.00

$55,754.83

<table><tbody><tr><td>Salaries</td><td>$ 1,947.72</td></tr><tr><td>Rent & Light</td><td>567.72</td></tr><tr><td>Telephone & Telegraph</td><td>173.83</td></tr><tr><td>Postage & Express</td><td>585.47</td></tr><tr><td>Supplies & Equipment</td><td>379.49</td></tr><tr><td>Printing & Lettershop</td><td>8,443.92</td></tr><tr><td>Taxes</td><td>108.60</td></tr><tr><td>Bank Charges, Audit & Miscellaneous</td><td>242.00</td></tr></tbody></table>

$12,448.75

Total Disbursements
Balance on hand 3/31/59

$68,203.58

575.71

$68,779.29

Total Receipts

$67,708.74

$68,779.29

Surplus 4/1/58

1,070.55

Margaret De Silver
Treasurer

LIGUE DES MUTILÉS ET INVALIDES
DE LA GUERRE D'ESPAGNE
EN EXIL

COMITÉ NATIONAL
BORDEAUX

(Organisme reconnu par Décret Ministériel
du 2 Mars 1949)

Bordeaux 12 diciembre 1959

Sta Luis Crane.
" Iberica"
112 East. 19 Th Street
NEW YORK 3, N.Y.

Ref 476/59/ O.I.

Querida señora Crane.

Una vez más nos dirigimos a usted con la seguridad de encontrar el apoyo necesario para poder proseguir nuestra labor en pro de nuestros mutilados é invalidos.

La señora Nancy Macdonald del comité Spanish Refugee Aid en la ultima carta que hemos recibido nos envió su dirección para que la pudieramos escribir directamente, con gran placer lo hacemos y aprobemos para saludarle y desearle una buena salud y felicidad en compañía de sus seres más queridos.

Podemos afirmar que es usted una de las pocas personas que sostienen a nuestra organización. Su importante aportación de Ciemdorales personales hace que podamos ocuparnos de nuestros compañeros. Su gesto es más loable, si cabe, en medio del desinterés y de la inconciencia que hoy existe en el mundo entero.

Una vez más, querida Sta Crane hacemos un llamamiento a tus
buenos sentimientos para rogarle encarecidamente que prosiga usted en
el año que empieza la obra de solidaridad que hace en favor de la Liga,
enviándonos esta ayuda tan necesaria para nosotros.

La situación de nuestra organización y de los mutilados é invalidos en general es cada día más difícil, nos encontramos ante dificultades enormes en nuestro camino, en multiples ocasiones no podemos acudir en ayuda de nuestros compañeros por nuestra falta de medios económicos. Nuestra situación se hace insostenible, por suerte en medio de toda nuestra tragedia nos encontramos con personas como usted que nos hacen algunas veces olvidar nuestras vicisitudes y sufrimientos,

Tenga usted la seguridad que la Liga de Mutilados é Invalidos
de la Guerra de España en el Exilio no olvidará jamás la ayuda tan

Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc.

OR egon 4-7451

June 1, 1960.

Dear Louise:

I have wanted for a long time to make up a reading list on
Spain and the Civil War and after for our contributors. We
get a lot of requests. Here is a tentative list that I have
made up and I wonder if you would go through it and add others
that you think would be useful or make suggestions of ones to
take off if you think they are not any good. A good many of
these I have read but some I have gotten out of bibliographies
where they sounded of interest. Now that I think of it, Iberica
should be added at the end under magazines - perhaps there are
others ? I'd appreciate your help on this.

Will you tell Victoria that we have sent our questionnaire to
M. Antonio Ortiz about whom she wrote me and that we will try
to help him soon. I also hope that one of our people will
take a trip to Bordeaux in the next few months and go to visit
some of our cases there to check up on them, so he could be
visited at that time. I'm going to make a list soon.

GEN. LAZARO CARDENAS

PABLO CASALS

Honorary Chairmen

MARY McCARTHY†

Chairman

MARGARET DE SILVER†

Treasurer

NANCY MACDONALD†

Executive Secretary

JOAN HERBST

MARGARET RANDALL

EVALYN STEINBOCK

Office Staff

SUZANNE CHATELET

Field Representative

Sponsors

CARMEN ALDECOA

KATRINA M. BARNES

ALFRED H. BARR, JR.

CLAUDE G. BOWERS*

FENNER BROCKWAY

ALBERT CAMUS*

HOODING CARTER

DOROTHY DAY

JESUS DE GALINDEZ*

SALVADOR DE MADARIAGA

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

LOUIS NELSON

REINHOLD NIEBUHR

MRS. GEORGE ORWELL

A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

SIR HERBERT READ

REV. HERMAN F. REISSIG

LAWRENCE ROGIN

MICHAEL ROSS

GEORGE RUBIN

ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR.

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

(Contributions to Spanish Refugee Inc. are tax deductible)

357

Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc.

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

ORegon 4-7451

Association Etrangère pour l'Aide aux Réfugiés Espagnols autorisée par le Ministre de l'Intérieur

64, RUE DE RICHELIEU — PARIS (2°) — RICHELIEU 03-52

Honorary Chairmen

HANNAH ARENDT †

Chairman

MARGARET DE SILVER †

Treasurer

NANCY MACDONALD †

Executive Secretary

RHODA CLARK

MARGARET RANDALL

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

ALBERT CAMUS *

HODDING CARTER

DOROTHY DAY

JESUS DE GALINDEZ *

SALVADOR DE MADARIAGA

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

ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR.

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

Montauban, 23 de agosto de 1961.

Senora Directora de "IBERICA".

Doña Victoria KENT.

New-York.

Distinguida compatriota:

Es para mi un placer poder comunicarle que al fin hemos llevado a cabo una de nuestras aspiraciones, la de crear un Hogar para los ancianos, refugiados espanoles, donde podrán pasar las tarde largas y frias de invierno, en una temperatura agradable, al mismo tiempo que un ambiente tipicamente español.

A este "Foyer" le hemos dado la denominación de "FOYER PABLO CASALS" como homenaje al insigne Maestro que une a sus cualidades de artista un corazon que desborda de generosidad en bien de los necesitados del mundo entero y de los españoles en particular.

La necesidad de crear un Centro de esta naturaleza es más que nada debido aparte de consideraciones de orden material, a otras no menos importantes de orden psicologico. A ciertas edades aclimatarse a un país extranjero es algo casi imposible y los refugiados españoles de edad avanzada sienten una verderanostalgia al verse obligados a vivir alejados de nuestra Patria. Para mitigar en parte este estado de ánimo el SPANISH REFUGEE AID. Inc. ha incluido a sus otras dependencias una gran sala; con muebles modernos y claros, decorada de aquellos rincones artísticos riqueza de las diferentes regiones españolas, en la que cada cual encontra-rá un pedazo de su "patria chica" que todos tanto amamos.

En esta sala podrán ver la televisión, escuchar música y al mismo tiempo estamos creando una biblioteca en la que trataremos que un gran número de volumenes sean en lengua española, ya que por desgracia muchos ancianos desconocen el frances.

En nuestros proyectos que pensamos poner, en practica a primeros de octubre entra también el repartir una merienda, así como la distribución de paquetes alimenticios, una o dos veces por mes, esto dependerá de los medios económicos de que dispongamos, a fin de que los ancianos puedan nutrirse mejor ya que la situación de algunos de ellos linda con la miseria.

Esta obra ha podido llevarse a cabo gracias al trabajo incansable del Comité de New-York y en particular de su Secretaria, la Señora Nancy Macdonald, nuestra Secretaria General

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

1-

trabajo a fin

17 de octubre de 1961

Sra. Da. Teresa Placios
S.R.A.
47, rue de la Banque
Montauban (T.et G.)

Muy estimada compatriota:

Ha de perdonar este retraso en agradecerle su interesante y cordial carta del 23 de agosto, pero el tiempo se me va de las manos con las obligaciones apremientes y queda siempre en retraso la correspondecia más grata, además de otras contingencias que han influido en este involuntario retraso.

Esto dicho tenga la seguridad que su carta y los recortes de pionsa que la acompañaban, han sido para nosotras, para Miss Crane y para mí, una gran alegría. No ignora Vd. la generosa ayuda que viene prestando Miss Crane desde hace años al S.R.A., puede decirse que grecias a ella puede al Comité atender necesidades que sin su ayuda no se cubrirían, quiero decir algunas necesidades, y lo lo está.

No sé si sabrá Vd. que yo no quise pertenecer al Comité por evitarte darle crácter político y no restar ayudas, pero mi interés entodo cuanto se relaiza es máximo.

El "Foyer Pablo Casals" será un gran alivio para esos viejos rec fuguiados y más si trata Vd. de animar algunas veladas con algún espectáculo atractivo que les evoque nuestra tierra. Todos llevamos muy hondo la nostalgia y la esperanza.

A Vd. va nuestra sincera y entusiasta felicitación por lo conseguido, su aspiración está realizada y en mucho se debe a su esfuerzo y entusiasmo. Cuente siempre con nuestros envios.

Tanto Miss Crane como yo le enviamos nuestra cordial felicitación con un afectuosos saludo.

Victoria Kent

mg/VK

["Éditions 1-10 - 2-10 « LA DEPECHE du Midi »", "MON", "VENDREDI\nSAMEDI", "LE PARIS\nL'ENFER DANS LA VILLE", "Anna MAGNANI - Giuletta MASINA - A. SORDI", "Dimanche : FERNANDEL, dans", "LA LOI, C'EST LA LOI!", "LE FOYER \"PABLO CASALS\"\ndestiné aux réfugiés espagnols, a été inauguré hier au soir", "En haut : Une image d'ensemble du foyer; en bas : Au fond de la salle, se dresse une\ncelle chemineuse sur laquelle est posée la photo du maître catala n.\n(Photos Rességuilid)", "Ce Foyer, dont nous nous délivrons les lettres, a été conçu de grâce à la librairie de personnalités amérines à la croix de l'impôt des visvillards nécessaires à l'impôt de leur patrimoine, qui nous a rassuré toujours de vivre, à son de trop espéré.", "Extremement tenu amérige, puisqu'il faut bien l'apprécier, il faut aussi l'apprécier certainement qu'ici qu'il y ait de la librairie en librairie, c'est-à-dire qu'une atmosphère amérigie.", "Bien qu'on l'espère, sans ce prédicateur, il y ait de la librairie à y vendre, il y a

credi 26 juillet 1961

MON

La vie MONTALB

Création à Montauban
par une association
américaine

d'un foyer à l'usage
des réfugiés espagnols

IL PORTERA LE NOM
DE PABLO CASALS

Conformément à un arrêté du
ministère de l'intérieur, enregistré à la préfecture de Montauban
en date du 25 mai dernier, une
association dont le but est l'aide
à apporter aux réfugiés de nationalité espagnole vient d'être créée

A VENDRE, CAUSSADE, F 4 NEUF

22.000 NF + CREDIT FONCIER

S'adresser : 31, 1g Lacapelle
MONTAUBAN

A VENDRE

urgent, pour cause maladie

PROPRIETE 20 hect.

seul tenant. Gros rapport. Cheptel
vif et mort - 60.000 NF

S'adresser : 31. faubourg Lacapelle
MONTAUBAN

Vends directement
ma propriété agrément

Bean, pare en terrasse, valle
Garonne. 8 pièces, bains,
100.000 NF, partie comptant,
partie rente

Ecr. : N. 7.957 « Dépêche »
MONTAUBAN

AIDE AUX MERES

cherehe centre Montauban
appartement ou maison

6 pièces minimum cuisine,
salle d'eau. Appartement consi-
dère à usage non professionnel.
45, rue Général-Sarrail

Télélph. 63.01-96

AVIS

Toute la semaine, une
première esthéticienne de

la Maison GUERLAIN
Parfumerie BARREAU

pour vous donner gratuitement
de judicieux conseils au sujet
de votre beaute et aussi pour
pratiquer des soins nécessités
par l'état de votre épidème

à Montauban, 47. rue de la Ban-
que.

Cette association, qui porte le
nom de « Spanish Refugee Aid
incorporated », est l'œuvre d'une
cinquantaine de personnalités
américaines. Les présidents d'hon-
neur en sont MM. Lazaro Car-
denas et Pablo Casals, la prési-
dence effective étant assurée par
M. James T. Farrell, de New
York.

Le comité est composé, entre
autres personnalités, de Mmes
Margaret de Silver, tresorière ;
Nancy MacDonald, secrétaire exé-
cutive; Suzanne Chatelet, repré-
sentante pour la France, etc.

Le Foyer de Montauban sera
géré par Mme. Teresa Pacacio,
déléguée pour le département de
Tarn-et-Garonne; Mme Berta as-
surera à Toulouse, pour la Haute-
Garonne, la même fonction.

La aide aux réfugiés espagnols
sera entièrement financée par le
« Spanish Refugee » qui, par
délégation, en assurera aussi le
bon fonctionnement. Cette œuvre,
essentiellement philanthropique,
pourvoiera surtout aux besoins
des vieillarrâts sans ressources,
aux infirmes, etc., qui, loin de
leur patrie, trouveront dans ce
refuge, qui sera le leur, un adou-
cissement à leur sort, et ceci tant
sur le plan matériel que moral.

L'inauguration de ce Foyer aura
lieu demain, en présence de
plusieurs personnalités, et si
possible sous la présidence du vieux
maître catalan Pablo Casals, dont
il portera le nom. Nous en ren-
drons compte dans notre pro-
chaine édition.

Sur un thème connu

Notre écho d'hier, sur l'absence
de lumiere — la nuit » du square
du Général-Piquart et de la place
Victor-Hugo, nous a valu d'au-
tre sérécriminations, émanant cel-
les-là d'un secteur voisin — la
place Nationale, dont l'éclairage
ne serait pas, lui non plus. sans
reproche.

On se plaint, en général, de la
médiocrate de celui-ci, non seule-
ment en ce qui concerne la place
elle-même, mais aussi ses cou-
verts; exception faite, bien en-
tendu, des rues adjacentes.

Il faut bien convenir qu'il y
aurait mieux à faire, si ces plain-
tes naturelles sont fondées. Il est
dommage, toujours pour les mé-
mes motifs touristiques déjà plu-
sieurs fois exposés, que ce superbe
monument historique ne soit pas
davantage mis en valeur, par un
éclairage aussi savant qu'appro-
prié.

Il semble que la réputation
artistique de notre ville ne pour-
railt cependant qu'y gagner.

INTERIM REPORT ON THE FOYER PABLO CASALS

November 13, 1961

The Foyer Pablo Casals was opened on the 27th of July. The opening was from 5-8 P.M. and was attended by a great many of the old people of Montauban, all the workers of SRA in France (Mme. Chatelet, M. Olive, M. et Mme. Palacios, Mme. Berta) as well as the Executive Secretary, Nancy Macdonald. As Pablo Casals was not able to attend because of illness, he sent a friend, M. Andreu Claret, to represent him and speak for him. The Prefecture and Mairie of Montauban also sent representatives, Miss Persis Miller of the Unitarian Service Committee came and a number of other representatives of French and Spanish organizations in the area attended. Sandwiches, cakes, ice cream, soft drinks, beer and wine were served and several short speeches were made.

A resume of the receipts and expenses to date is attached. French World Refugee Year contributed $6,000 to the founding of the Foyer and is giving a television and frigidaire.

The Foyer is a remodeled garage at 47 rue de la Banque in Montauban, which we were fortunate enough to get after a long search and without having to pay any "key money," which is a usual practice in France. The remodeling was more expensive than we had expected but the result is a Foyer which is considered among the most attractive and comfortable in France. It consists of a small vestibule in the front, a large "living room" with chairs and tables, a lavatory with modern toilets for men and women (in Montauban this is a real luxury for the poor), a small kitchen, an office for the work of the Foyer and SRA, a dressing room, a large clothing and sewing room, a small garden and an ample storeroom for clothes and food out behind.

So far there are 95 people over the age of 60 inscribed on the rolls of the Foyer. These are only from Montauban proper. There will be more from the environs. The distribution of packages has started and for the time being will be given out only once a month because of the difficulties of distribution. Many packages must be taken to sick people who cannot come out.

The first package given out consisted of: 1 kg. sugar, 1 lb. pate, 1 lb. rice, 250 grms. coffee, 250 grms. chocolate, a package of biscuits, a box of sardines and a litre of oil. The next package will be doubled, at least, in size. A special package will be given out at Christmas. Small packages of food are also being given to the Spanish refugees in the Montauban hospital: containing 1 kg. sugar, 2 packages of biscuits, and 2 bars of chocolate.

We also distributed new clothing for the old people. The men will receive a new pair of pants, a sweater and a pair of socks. The women will get a sweater and a pair of stockings. (Pants cost about $7, sweaters about $4.25, socks 30¢ a pair.)

Eight dollars per person will be given to the old people in December as a special gift for coal and wood.

The rent of the Foyer is $60 a month. The administrator, Manuel Palacios, is being paid $100 a month. A cleaning woman, paid by the hour, comes in two or three days a week. Mme. Palacios who is also working part of the time for the Foyer is being paid by SRA.

As the Foyer only opened for work in the first week in October it is not possible to give further details at this time. Many strikes in France have delayed our work and we are still waiting for the arrival of the television which was promised to us last summer.

EXPANSION REFUGEE AID
80 East 11 Street, New York 3, N.Y.

LIST OF REFUGRES OVER 65 YEARS OF AGE
Page 21

<table><thead><tr><th>Name</th><th>Born</th><th>Family</th><th>Health</th><th>Monthly Income</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>252. Lopez Mainer, Jose</td><td>8/26/89</td><td>none</td><td>he is very ill - she has diabetes</td><td>65 NF</td></tr><tr><td>253. Maria 3 rue du Portail d'Avant Tarbes, H.P.</td><td>2/20/95</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>254. Lopez Malagon, Manuel Rue du Puits Souillac, Lot</td><td>5/10/96</td><td>married</td><td>urethra trouble, chronic bronchitis, - very ill</td><td>91 NF</td></tr><tr><td>255. Lopez Martinez, Pascual</td><td>5/17/88</td><td>2 children</td><td>he has heart trouble</td><td>116 NF</td></tr><tr><td>256. Aurea 31 rue du Moulin Neuf Civray, Vienne</td><td>1894</td><td>in Spain</td><td>wife also ill</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>257. Lopez Perez, Florentina 5 rue Consul Dupuis Montauban, T. et G.</td><td>5/14/81</td><td>alone - widow</td><td>ill</td><td>35.90 NF</td></tr><tr><td>258. Lopez Perez, Jose 4 rue Felix Pyat Bourges, Cher</td><td>11/30/92</td><td>married</td><td>lung trouble - wife has ulcers, vericose veins, asthma</td><td>150 NF</td></tr><tr><td>259. Lopez Reviejo, Santiago</td><td>5/28/95</td><td>31 yr. old son</td><td>he has rheumatism, tension, liver trouble, 2 hernia operations - wife heart trouble, stomach</td><td>SS & son helps</td></tr><tr><td>7 rue Lasserre Montauban</td><td>8/12/96</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>260. Lopez Suarez, Clementina Au Piboulette Caussade, T. et G.</td><td>5/30/88</td><td>widow</td><td>had operation - can't work</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>261. Lopez Tenajas, Maximiano</td><td>2/21/95</td><td>none</td><td>he has chronic bronchitis, heart ailment- wife - bronchitis, asthma</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>262. Mme. 2 rue Fabriques Nabot Perpignan, P.O.</td><td>4/29/96</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>263. Lozano Nunez, Carmaux La Lourayrie-Carmaux, Tarn</td><td>5/1/95</td><td>wife & grand-son</td><td>mutilated arm - can't work</td><td>77.86 NF</td></tr><tr><td>264. Lozano y Judes, Francisco 18 rue Jacques Desplats Castres, Tarn</td><td>10/4/85</td><td>widower lives with married daughter</td><td>chronic illness - trouble with back & legs</td><td>5 NF</td></tr></tbody></table>

Spanish Refugee Aid

80 East 11 St., New York 5, N.Y.

LIST OF REFUGEES OVER 65 YEARS OF AGE

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| Name | Born | Family | Health | Monthly Income |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 301. Moreno Palsez, Julio <br> 47 rue Cavaignac <br> Oran, Algeria | 8/4/75 | married | invalid - TB, diges- <br> tive trouble, double <br> hernia, arthritis | 47.50 NF |
| 302. Munoz Martos, Miguel <br> x Place de l'Eglise <br> XXX Escoussons, Tarn | 8/24/96 | married | invalid - TB, diges- <br> tive trouble, double <br> hernia, arthritis | 180 NF |
| 303. Munoz Santos, Rosendo <br> 304. Manuela <br> Nevy S/Barangeau, Cher <br> rue Charbon | 3/1/97 <br> 2/1/95 | | he - bad heart, chro- <br> nic bronchitis - wife <br> also ill | 80 NF |
| 305. Murillo Menemdez, Miguel <br> 306. Isabel <br> 6 rue des Gobelets <br> Orleans, Leiret | 2/25/88 <br> 1894 | | 4 fingers of rt. hand <br> amputated - asthma, <br> unable to work | 147 NF |
| 307. Bart Bodes, Jose <br> 6 rue Dalarac, Toulouse, H.G. | 5/8/85 | | anchilosis, gallstone, <br> hernia operations | 60 NF |
| 308. Naval Torres, Juan Manuel <br> 32 rue Felix Armand, Quillan, Aude | 6/17/96 | married | partially paralyzed | none |
| 309. Navarrete Pojo, Antonio <br> Route de Cos, Montauban, T et G | 5/16/96 | widower - alone <br> children in Spain | wounded in CW - un- <br> able to work | 49.80 NF |
| 310. Navarro Maruri, Jose <br> 2 Bd. Albert I. Douai, Nord | 3/20/85 | married - 1 <br> daughter | chronic bronchitis, <br> asthma, heart | 170 NF |
| 311. Navas Amat, Nicolas <br> Moulbour, Basses-Pyrenees | 1/25/84 | alone - on in <br> Spain | | 23.50 NF |
| 312. Nebot Nicolas, Felix <br> 313. Antoinette <br> Maureillas, P.O. | 12/2/91 <br> 8/4/88 | | | |
| 314. Nicolas, Antonio <br> Maison Vidal, rue Anselme Foug- <br> e (II), Tarbes, H.P. | 3/5/90 | alone | invalid - chronic <br> rheumatism | 52 NF |

PABLO CASALS
SALVADOR DE MADARIAGA
Honorary Chairmen

HANNAH ARENDT†
Chairman

MARGARET DE SILVER†
Treasurer

RHODA CLARK
JOAN HERBST
JANE POTTER
EVALYN STEINBOCK
Office Staff

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

Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc.

Room 406 + 30 East 11th Street + New York City 3, N. Y.

ORegon 4-7451

December 8, 1961.

Louise Crane
Iberica
112 E. 19 St.
NYC 3

Dear Louise:

I hope that you and your brother are going to be able to
contribute again to SRA this year as you did last year?
We, or course, depend on your generosity very much. As
always at this time of year, we are overwhelmed with re-
quests for help and the need does not become less but
greater, alas. As you know from our reports, our greatest
concern is for the old people. With this in mind, we typed
up this fall, a list of all the Spanish refugees over the
age of 65, who are on our current lists. I am sending you
a copy, to give you a sense of the weight of our problems I
I can assure you it is hard for us to choose among them and
the others who need help, where we should begin.

Right now we have about 250 cases who are waiting to be
helped (for 3 months this means $7,500). Another $800 is
needed for fuel for the old people of Toulouse. I think
that the Ligue des Mutiles should be helped again this
coming year. As you know, their income has been cut in
half during the past year and they need your support more
than ever. When I saw them in Bordeaux this summer (M. Guevara
and M. Guillamon), they asked me to give you their very spe-
cial thanks for all the help you have sent them.

I am also enclosing an interim report on the Foyer Pablo
Casals which I thought you might like to see. Its activi-
ties are going well and for the time being we have enough
money to carry it along for some time.

Last year you gave us $3,000 and your brother gave us $2,000
(since your Mother contributed last spring, I am not writing
to her again at this time). I hope very much that both of
you can help again this year. We will be very grateful as
always.

With cordial greetings to you and Victoria,

357

January 29, 1962

Mrs. Nancy Macdonald, Executive Secretary
Spanish Refugee Aid Committee, Inc.
80 East 11 St.
New York 3, N.Y.

Dear Mrs. Macdonald:

I am writing in belated reply to your appeal.

As you know, I have contributed regularly to your work since your Committee was first formed in 1953. I intend to continue my support, however I have decided to do so in a somewhat different way this year.

We Americans contribute to Spanish Refugee Aid out of sympathy for the old and sick refugees in France who have suffered so much for their ideals, and because most Spaniards are not in a position to give much help to their less fortunate compatriots.

In this connection, however, it has been most disturbing to me, and to many other American contributors to Spanish Refugee Aid, that your Honorary Chairman, Sr. Casals, has not yet given a concert in this country for the benefit of the Spanish refugees. To my knowledge, in addition to his appearances and sponsorship of the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, Sr. Casals has made three appearances here in recent years: first, at the United Nations, secondly, at the home of Mr. David Rockefeller, a benefit for the Israel-American Cultural Society, and now recently at the White House. Yet he has given no concert for the benefit of the Spanish refugees.

Possibly this omission has been due to lack of opportunity. For this reason I am increasing my annual contribution to Spanish Refugee Aid to $10,000 this year, to be used, however, primarily to under-write the costs of a concert to be given by Sr. Casals here in New York for the benefit of the Spanish refugees. This sum will easily cover the costs of management and promotion for such a concert, leaving a generous margin to be added to gross proceeds.

Not only would the Spanish refugees be materially and morally aided by such a concert, but the attendant publicity would be of inestimable value in calling attention to their plight.

January 29, 1962

Dear Mrs. Macdonald:

Copy of letter to Pablo Casals - February 6, 1962

Dear Pablo Casals:

I am sending you today a copy of the letter which Louise Crane sent us last
week while I was away from the office (sick with the grippe). As she points
out, she has been a very faithful contributor to our work during the past
9 years and together with her Mother and Brother has contributed about $40,000.
In addition when there was a crisis, I often went to her for help and she always
did give it. As you probably know, she also contributes to the cause of a free
Spain by publishing the magazine Iberica.

I hope that her very generous offer may increase the possibilities of your doing
a concert for the Spanish refugees. You know my feelings about this so I need
not enlarge on them. I can only assure you that the need is greater than ever.
As an example let me cite a letter I received yesterday from Mme. Berta, who
works for us in Toulouse: "I have received the 6,000 NF for the 150 old people
(40 NF apiece for winter fuel). Unfortunately the list has grown and even if
I eliminate a few, there will be 180. I never could have believed that the list
would be so big, but there are many new cases and only a few deaths." (Last
year there were only 134 old people to help in Toulouse).

And this is the situation on all sides - more people to help and not enough
money to do it with. To be able to answer the many appeals this winter we had
to borrow from the Foyer account but that will have to be paid back in the spring
at the expense of those who need help then. I couldn't bear to turn down urgent
needs during the winter. Well I suppose it's always the same thing but I just
wanted to assure you that the need is urgent, pitiful and great.

I am enclosing a note which was sent with $50 from Steve Allen which I thought
you might like to see.

With cordial and affectionate greetings to you and Sra. Casals.

Nancy Macdonald.

Rapport de Mme. Teresa Palacios - Montauban, le 10 mars, 1962

Le "FOYER PABLO CASALS" a dans l'actualité 163 protégés; ces refugies se trouvent disseminés dans le Département du Tarn et Garonne. Pour être protégé du Foyer nous ne tenons compte d'aucune consideration d'ordre politique, religieux ni philosophique. Il faut être refugie espagnol reconnu par l'OFFICE FRANÇAIS DE PROTECTION DES REFUGIES ET APATRIDES, du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères Français, avoir 65 ans. Nous avons admis aussi refugies de seulement 60 ans qui ont été reconnu inaptes pour le travail par la Mairie de sa résidence ou par la Securité Sociale, tenant compte de son état de santé.

SALLE DU FOYER.- Nous avons une Salle au Foyer ou les vieillards viennent passer ses après-midis. Notre Foyer est ouvert de deux heures a sept heures du soir. Dans cette salle les vieillards ont la T.V., un Poste avec tourne-disques pour entendre la musique, et une bibliothèque. Pour le moment nous avons 150 livres et nous esperons qu'elle deviendra plus grande a fur et mesure que nos disponibilités et la generosité des donneurs nous le permettrons.

Nous avons aussi fait un abonnement journalier aux deux journaux de la Région: La Dépêche et le Suèd-Ouest en plus des abonnemens. Un abonnement mensuel pour le Reader's Digest et la Direction de "IBERICA" de New-York nous envoi aussi son journal mensuel.

Tenant compte qu'il y a pas mal des vieillards qui par cause de maladie ou d'infirmité ne peuvent pas venir au Foyer passer ses après-midis, nous avons organisé une bibliothèque ambulante. Nous avons donné à chaque livre un numéro et nous pretons les livres; pour ca nous avons ouvert un LIVRE REGISTRE pour les rentrees et les sorties.

Au même temps que la Salle du Foyer fonctionne, dans les Bureaux les vieillards trouvent une Permanence tous les jours laborables pour demander les renseignements concernants les pensions et autres avantages accordés par la Mairie de Commune. Dans cette Permanence on leur donne le conseil et l'appui nécessaire pour toutes les demandes et toutes les démarches que sont indispensables. Tenant compte que le plus part ne savent pas parler ni écrire la langue française, c'est le Foyer qui se charge de tout faire.

En fin je voudrais bien que vous voyiez une journée dans notre Foyer, quand il y a dans la salle 20 ou 30 vieillards qui parlent entre eux, qui lissent les journaux, qui sont assises dans nos fauteils, dans une ambiance coquette et confortable; ils sont vraiment contents et reconnaissants puisque ils ont compris la generosité de ceux qui ont compris, pas seulement ses miserables matériels d'exilés, mais aussi toute la détresse morale des hommes et des femmes qui ont tout perdu, famille, amis, patrie, et qui se trouvent loin de tout ce que pour eux en tant que vieillards est une source de vie, les souvenirs...

Voilà pourquoi ils pleurent de joie quand ils écoutent la musique espagnole qui leur parle de son terroir que la plus part ne verront plus, puisque son âge ne leur permet pas de se faire trop des illusions sur un retour à son pays aimé.

Maintenant que j'ai une relation constant avec les refugies espagnols âgées, j'ai compris que pour leur faire son séjour dans la Salle agreeable,