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Why An American Ambassador Supports Spain
Spanish People Desire Internal Peace opinion he is not for that reason to be condemned as a heretic or a fellow traveller, nor stigmatised as a bad and unworthy Catholic. If his premises Department and because of his final are false, he is simply mistaken. A with person, therefore, may honestly believe conclusion, urging friendship Spain and dissuading from interven- that intervention is necessary in Spain as a person may honestly believe that tion in the future. History will decide how far Carlton intervention is necessary in Russia or any other totalitarian country, DeIlayes' differences with the State partment were justified. His record is But even supposing that intervention there for all to read. The most cru- in Spain were justified, according to the the cial point of difference concerned hypothesis just mentioned, this does attempt to restrain the Spaniards from not mean that such a course is wise or to wolfram product selling the precious feasible under concrete circumstances. did not implicate him in any way with the Germans. Says Dr. Hayes: By JOHN LaFARGE. pause even the Falange nor with the Franco Gov- I believe Spain might have been per- Two considerations can give to the severest critic of the existing Wheil on March 19, 1942, Dr. Carlton ernment as such. exsuaded wolfram to embargo all regime. Spanish J. H. Hayes, Professor of History at "Over and over again I told members ports in the early winter of 1943.1944, The beginning of any consideration is of the staff whose missionary seal Columbia University, was ushered into if in advance Washington had apprethat worse evils may result from outoutstripped their judgment that they the presence of President Franklin D. the practical in ciated the difficulties side interference. Any type of intermight entertain any ideas they wishRoosevelt, he endeavoured with all the Kay and had concerted a comprehen- ference rein Spain, no matter how ideally ed about the existing eloquence and reasoning at his comAs them. sive for overcoming plan justified, time, but they must preserve, in word mand to convince the President that it war, however, the British were left conceived, how theoretically After threatens to result in civil and act, a strict neutrality. he was not the man to go to Spain. out of account, as were also the Por- jirevitably we From which horrors. with its attendant war and regime was the all, it precisely was The President, however, tuguese, and the Americans had little of testimony offered had to deal, the regime which ultiof the contrary opinion and the argutangible offer Spain in the place a great variety to fateful conditions in Spain, one mately determined Spain's ments alleged by Dr. Hayes only conof the very real benefits it derived concerning thing seems to be certain: that the he bad policy toward us and the war. firmed the President's view. All we from exporting wolfram. above- all things, from all made a perfect choice. Now at the I knew that the Spanish "Leftists" could do was to refer to "public Spaniards and sorts, do not want any more were sympathetic with us anyway. conclusion of three of the most difficult opinion" in the United States, to classes war; they want internal peace. be converted, to civil have didn't They could possibly years an Ambassador hold out vague hopes-or fears-for inevitable result of such intervenand for us to have encouraged them experience, Professor Hayes renders an the future, and to reassert that we The suicidal of civil war would be been loosing have tion and to revolt would account of his stewardship in his resimply must have an embargo comI) to inflame nationalism and (V to for us and flatly contrary to instruccent book: "Wartime Mission in Spain" this at once. And all plete and ons from President Roosevelt and (Macmillan, 3 dollars). Dr. Hayes is while the Spaniards perceived that crush genuine liberal forces. to the clearly and repeatedly expresssaid to have expressed the view that What are these genuine liberal forthe British were not insisting, and ed wishes of our Joint and combined this book would make everybody mad. that in the case of Portugal we were ces? Professor Hayes does not discuss General Staffs. No forceful overturn Personally I doubt that, but there is in his book as they do not enter them not insisting. of the existing Spanish regime was enough explosive material in it to make into the scope of his narrative as an likely or even possible, and the only The Spanish rather naturally conclud- Ambassador, though anyone who knows a great many people mad, and several ed either that we were bluffing or result of our advocating it would of the reviews that have appeared have that we had some ulterior political his record as a thorough democrat, a have been our expulsion from the been quite acid in their tone. or military purposes. In the former man of broad views, one of the leadcountry and the surrender of strateTo the fundamental question, should ing pioneers in this country in exposcase, they could afford to procrastingic Spain to Germany. we or should we not intervene in Stain ate; in the latter they might play ing the errors of Fascism and totalitarto oust Franco and put in a republic, It was peculiarly important that our ianism, can guess where his sympathies the British us. In any against press and propaganda work in Spain Dr. Hayes answers decidedly in the event, they were not going readily to and convictions lie. Yet Professor should serve Allied war -ends and not. negative. He is not holding a brief ,surrender the wolfram -bird in their Hayes, the democrat and genuine libthrough ignorance or misplaced entor the Franco Government; he hopes own hand for a bird which might be eral, pleads for friendship with Spain thusiasm, give aid or comfort to the for "evolution," and recommends Amand for non-interference with its interin a distant bush. Axis; and I am confident it did serve erican friendship with "evolving" Spain. nal affairs. It was his conclusion, an According to the Syllabus of Errors, a result of his residence there: our war-ends and serve them intellilie defends the thesis that by the of Pope Pius IX (No. 62), the doctrine gently and effectively. course of action which he pursued . that the large majority of the His weapons were "factual propa- is condemned which asserts: "The prinSpain was won over to our side in the Spanish people greatly desired (11 tif var and induced to extend to us a ganda and psychological poise. But ciple of so-called non-intervention is to out of the international strug; stay An gle; (2) to avoid recurrence of ci ill aeries of facilities which helped to as- there was a third, the most telling of be proclaimed and observed." sure our victory. His diplomacy may all. It was economic. It had been de- American Catholic, as a result of study (3) to be friendly with the EngWar; First of veloped by the British two years be- or personal experience, may have be summed up as follows. lish-speaking democracies, especially reached the conclusion that certain funall, he ignored the demands for inter- fore." with the United States, These deWhen he did decide to set in motion damental human rights are being vention from various sources in this sires have been common not only country. To some of these he refers his principal 'weapon, the economic crushed under the Spanish Govern- to the mass of "Leltists" (Republiwith considerable bitterness. Second- threat, it came to his effective aid in ment, and he may come to the same cans and Socialists), but also to most conclusion about the violation the maximum crisis. of ly, he resisted the pressure from the of the "Rightist" groups which supDr. Hayes' presumably most severe human rights in Russia or in the Baltic State Department to assume a more ported General Franco in the Spanthreatening attitude. In the third critic, Alexander Uhl, in "P.M.," in spite countries under the domination of Rusish Civil War. sia. It may be his belief that the Mace, he held back, as far as he could, of headlines and abusive cartoons with Argues Professor Hayes: "Non-interfrom the use of his principal weapon, the articles, treats him fairly mildly. Franco Government has far exceeded its mandate as an agent for crushing ference in the internal affairs of foreign Uhl accepts, apparently, Dr. Hayes' which was that of economic pressure, particularly with regard to petroleum. main principle that he had to get along Communism and restoring order to Rus- countries is not merely a personal counHe did what he could with milder met- with Franco and under the circum- sian -dominated Spain, that its further sel of mine ,it is a long-standing and, at hods and snecialised in cultivatine a stances there was nothing else he could existence is a threat and that the least used to be, a generally accepted He recites friendly attitude towards the ruling do but make such bargains as were pos- only hope is in the restoration of the American public policy." But if that is his honest s. Furthermore, he claims, this sible. As R. L, Duffus admits in the Republic. (Continued on Page 13.)
Weighty Reasons Against Non-Intervention
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