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THE SPANISH MAELSTROM Robles' Great Work and the Youth Movement ENGLISH LIBERALISM AND THE PRESS so famous in Catholic history, has just issued from the midst of a stormy election campa• tt, the result of which may be r v i for the faith of that Ca:holic land. No Catholic can remain indifferent when the cause of Christ is in jeopardy If the enemies of Christ take hold once more of the reins of Government in Sain the repercussions • -h a (t• ,!er will reach to the • lest Thc. Parliament (the • u dissolved. The whi,. ,(gan in • 710• ,. a - serious ; • ,:nish ai : ,,:; s. For :unrest has prevailed. 14th. April, 1931, when t he fell, that is within a period of , months, 28 new ref,rined Governments with a total of 78 Ministers have tilled the stage. Eight major revolts have •-' ' . of which the most , • ate WAS the Marxist revolui•-n of October. 1934. when more than 2,500 people were killed. There have been 9,000 strikes and more than 200 cht.rches and convents have been destroyed in bitter hatred of the Catholic faith. The dissolved Parliament met on November 19. 1933. It marked a great Catholic reaction. The Spanish people, whose passive endurance of religious persecution and of anti-Catholic propaganda had scandalised the world, had been stirred into activity by the forces of Catholic Activists and. under the inspiring leadership of Senor Gil Robles, dealt a resounding blow to the united front of Socialists and Communists. The hitherto weak Right won 207 seats, of which 115 fell to the lot of Robles' party. For twelve months this remarkable leader refused to enter the Cabinet. When he did enter the revolt broke out in the- Asturias. He proved himself a good statesman of sane vision and of calm in a troubled land and won the favour and loyalty of the army as a War Minister of genius and of character. Comparative rest prevailed and solid work was being done to lay firm the foundation of stable rule. But those in high
GIL ROBLES.
The recent Spanish elections, which resulted in a victory for the Republicans of the Left Wing and for Senor Azana at the head of a Left Wing Cabinet ,is not, at first sight, reassuring for the work of the Church in Spain. Despite the rosy e.lection promises of Azana regarding "a policy of liberality," etc., his record is a bad one. A Freemason and a Radical, he was r esponsible for the turmoil and religious persecution which culminated in the Catholic victory of December, 1933. He was the formulator also of the anti-Catholic constitution of the constituent Cortes, which was in force until December 10 of last year. Yet Azana is faced with a resolute and brilliant opponent in Gil Robles. What Spain has suffered in recent years and what Gil Robles has done for the Catholic cause is outlined below. _ hie of their rn st promising —the Juventud de Accion Popu.peakers is a young ironworker. lar (Popular Action Youth)-while youthful farmers and congregated to hear an open air t radesmen capably dischss econo- Mass near the Ucles monastery mics and politics with university a few miles from Toledo. whitI professors. During the stormy was 600 years ago the headquar (lays of October they guarded ters of the famous Cisterciar the churches and convents day Knights of Calatrava, organisc‹! to expel the Moors from Castile The Juventud is the junior sec tion of the Catholic party led ie. the Cortes by Senor Gil T Minister for War. Robles attended and was given a rot.si• velcome The chief speaker at .0 subsequent meeting was See Madariaga, Popular Action de yetity for Toledo. whose name apwared in recent cables as presi lent of the Conciliation Commit t ee appointed by the League o' N'ations to negotiate between Italy and Abyssinia. Madariaga said that the Government policy \ -as to construct a new State. not 1ik-e that of the Azana-Socialist period based on blood and tears. not based on a decadent liberalism. We wish to substitute hatrt,i and tyranny by love, justice liberty. For God and for Spair let us all join in the struggle. HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL TEDESCHINI, (Continued on Back Cover.) /EWEN.
places would not have it so. Robles withdrew from the Cabinet and a Ministry with tendencies to the Left was created. At about the same time the question of the reform of the Constitt.tion became urgent. This Constitution is anti-Catholic. The amendment of it required up to the 9th. of last December a majority of two-thirds in the Cortes. After that date a bare majority would suffice. The Left failed in the attempt to break lip the alliance of the Right parties .and prevailed upon President Zamora to dissolve the Cortes. While Gil Robles is brilliantly leading the .Confederation of the Right in the Cortes he has not neglected the organisation of Catholic Youth in the country. In 1.100 parish centres the Juventud has been organised. although it is only about two years old. Before Papal Nuncio in Spain. Monsignor Federico Tedeschini, w'the end of Holv Year it sent a dewas raised to the Cardinalate at ( .- v,ation of 1,000 Spanish boys to recent was born at Anteo. ine to get the blessing of Pope doco, inConsistory, the province of Rieti. Italy. in Pius NI.. on their "Accion Ca- 1s75. studied at the Pontifical tolica.- Study clubs are formed Rome, and took hi6 Doctorate Law. He in the branches. and trained lec- ,)logy, Cann and # turers are brought to cot.ntry .vas appointed Minutante in the office of the Secretary of State towards towns from Madrid and other end of the Pontificate of Leo XIII large cities to explain Catholic so- became Chancellor of Apostolic cial doctrines. Recently they had in 1908, and assistant to the Secretary of State in 1911. Since 1921 he h. , a ,4ix days' Tornadas) conference been Apostolic Nuncio at Madri T t. at Seville. which was attended by his duties were at times of a • 800 branch delegates. and ad- licate nature, owing to the ; dressed by His Eminence Car- troubles which involved the abdication (linal Ilundain. Archbishop of Se- of king Alfonso. the intolerance of *.ville. and bv officers of the Cen- A7ana usurpation. and the rise of C. Catholic parties under Ifer7crp tral Council of Madrid. These and Gil Robles. That Angel his d'.; • young men may belong to any of w as effective is shown by a staten-. • the 17 political parties in Spain, in the London papers that "All • except. of course. the Communists Spain Masses and general Comm were offered as an act of homage to or Socialists. A "streamer" in Monsignor Tedeschini, Papal Nun their meeting room is inscribed cio in Madrid, on his the appointment to "Nada politica" no politics). But the College of Cardinals." the young men are trained to winnow the wheat from the chaff in every political programme. They and night. and when attempts hold summer schools, with separ- were made to block the distribuate classes for working lads, sem- . tion of the Catholic press they inarists, college graduates, teach- sold Angel Herrera's great daily ers and journalists. They have paper. "El Debate." in the streets. established the nucleus of a great A Great Gathering of Spanish Catholic university, which will be Youth. the heart of their movement. On a recent Sunday a gathering They are thoroughly democratic. of 40.000 young men and women
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