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How Spain's Republican Reception of Red Hat by Cardinal "Government" Rimed the 1936 Elections The assassination, the skies." carried out by the Government itself, was the match applied to the fuse affixed to the powder charge. When reviewing these incontrovertible facts, I feel like asking You, ladies and gentlemen, what is your reaction against those who cannot find words strong enough to stigmatise the heroes who imposed upon themselves the tremendous task of putting an end to such inhuman state of affairs? The following instalment is the conclusion of Father Bernard's Was ever there a more worthy cause? lecture to the Catholic Teachers' Guild. It is concluded from last I thought it important to point the Red Hat week. out for you as clearly as I could This historic picture shows the H oly Father placing on Cardinal Gilroy. justification, nay, the duty, the revenge "Now that the hour of Now we shall consult the facts and see if they do not justify the has come," howled Largo Cabal- that weighed heavy on Spain of attitude and view the Church took lera, "we shall not leave stone ousting by force (in the impossiabout the morality of the Nation- upon stone of this Spain that we bility of any other way) such a shall destroy to rebuild again." demoralising government as that alist uprising. Here I shall not concern myself And Margarite Nelken screamed: which forced its way over the with the depth of anarchy to "We want a revolution, but not Spanish people in February, 1936. which Spain had already sunk even the Russian one can serve This is a fundamental fact which, prior to the general election on as our model, for we need gigan- once well grasped and understood, February, 1936. The parties of tic pyres that will glow around will serve to despatch most of the the the earth, and torrents of blood charges against Franco. the Left, amalgamated in We are told, for instance, that Popular Front, were determined, that will dye the seas red." At by hook or by crook, by violence the sickly tune of hair-raising ic was Germany's and Italy's help that defeated the Spanish Governunending of to win threats, a flood or artifice, by all means, At seven o'clock strikes, of clamouring demonstra- ment, more so than the Spanish the elections, people themselves. Indeed, Franco, in the evening of the first polling tions and parades with raised red without the treasury and national daY February 16, 1936, when, in clenched fists and unfurled spite of all imaginable fraud and banners inundated the whole of resources that were for the most "From the capital of the part in the hands of the Governcriminal misdemeanour on the part Spain. of Anarchists, Communists and Republic to the tiniest village ment, had to turn for help to France was Socialists, the parties of the Right every place trembled with the wherever he could. were leading by 500,000 votes, the spirit of extermination." There decidedly on the Communists' side, as any as much helping them was adherents of the Popular Front were assaults, attacks; there were thrown into the streets in an arson, forcible seizure of factories, other nation helped Franco. Eng- After the Consistory, the Cardinals prostrate themselves during the singing of the "Te Daum." orgy of frenzy, proclaiming their sacking and seizures of farms. land was stunned. so to say, and triumph. The majority was grad- There were holdups in the high would not help much either side. During America was too far way. So ually disintegrated, gradually sub- ways, murders, fighting. will not tolerate tracted from, to end with the scan- the four first months of the Popu- Franco turned to Germany and the Carlists long before Nazism or Spain cannot and Franco has indeed dalous robbery of over eighty lar Front Government, 269 people Italy. But he did not undertake Fascism was ever dreamed of. and chaos again. What he got the followers of Gil Robles quite a right and very good reasons to Instead of were murdered and 1,287 injured; any commitments. seats in Parliament. going through an interminable list 160 churches were completely de- was quid pro quo; it was paid in opposition to the Falangists' stay where he is. Besides, is not there any other contracting system? If there was a foreign without conspot on the of acts of violence and fraud to stroyed, and 231 damaged; 69 As a matter system on the lines of which way to know the wishes of the were future obligations. headquarters which the Marxists had recourse servative to emerge victorious from the wrecked and 312 damaged; while of fact, Germany helped not a lit- Franco endeavoured to develop people than through general elecFranco is still upheld, acelections, I shall confine myself to 33 newspaper offices were sacked. tle the other side. Italy was his own programme, it was the tions? reproduce here the words of such Spain was a real pandemonium, more sympathetic with Franco; Portuguese system. If there was claimed by the Spanish multiHe is still their idol, the a person as Alcala's Zamora, who an inferno, where it was absolute- but here again Franco would not a model on whose footsteps he tudes, The influence he was the very incarnation of the ly unbearable, impossible for the capitulate to any future obliga- thought to follow, it was Salazar. hero of Spain. over the Spanish very exercises still fell elecall Italy After free general That not Presitions. But, why its live. and to peaceful citizen Spanish Republic dent at the time. "The Popular state of affairs had to come to an short in its help to Franco, of the tions. some will still persist? That people is still magnetic, magicHis grand ambition, his looming help with which the International is the test of Democracy, that is like. Something was Front," he wrote, "did not obtain end. I3Y only aim, is the greater happiness Spain, livid Brigades and Russia supplied the the gist of political freedom. more than 200 seats in a Parlia- heavily in the air. It suc- and panting, like Laocoon of old, Spanish Reds. But, all this aside, right of conquest, the National- and welfare of his people. He ment of 473 deputies. ceeded in obtaining them by two was trying in vain to free herself it Franco's cause was such a justi- ists have a right to their own Gov- has the Cortes to advise, to guide, He has built quick moves. from those torturing serpents of fied and worthy cause, was not, ac- c-nment. That is one reason. He to suggest to him. "First, the Popular Front un- the Marxist terror in action, twin- cordingly, his cry for help justified reveals an utter ignorance of his- rows and rows of neat, hygienic, leashed a campaign of disorder in ing themselves- to strangle her to bring his worthy cause to a suc- tory and a very deficient power of comfortable houses for workers to easy observation of human affairs, who- live in at extraordinarily Franco himself cessful end? the streets and clamoured for within her coils. But what about the National- ever, after such a civil war as terms: he has raised their salaries power through violence. At the warned the director of the civil instigation of irresponsible ring- guard: he wanted the Minister of ists' ideology? Was it not Naz- Spain experienced, would expect and standard of life, and is fightleaders, the mobs took possession War: he warned the Prime Minis- ism, was it not Fascism, the im- and demand general elections in ing, without truce, poverty. There None better than the is not scarcity of food in spite of of the electoral certificates and in ter; he warned the President of pulsive cause of the Nationalist Spain. unprecedented of years I Spaniard himself knows why there two many cases the results were falsi- the Republic. The result was that Movement? Decidedly not, He has built hundreds peoples should not be general elections in drought. Second, having thus ob- he was exiled to the Canary wish I knew what those ficI. he has reschools: and of churches that of charging present Spain to that the Spain. It reason easy stands to it was there was from ta:ned a majority, Islands. 'It maye it a crushing one, streng- he sent his final warning in a let- being Fascist do understand by normality cannot be restored over- stored freedom of speech and reliconferred on work, has When Franco rose in night, in a few years after a tre- gion. He' thened bv the reactionary Bas- ter to Casares Quiroga, which is a Fascism. ques, of Parliament credentials, model of restrained , premonition arms to shake off the yoke of the mendous upheaval shakes the na- on hard work, a nobility unknown who acted in a purely arbitrary and foreboding. All was in vain, French and Russian influence, it tion which has suffered so mans before to the Spanish nobility. He immensely the All the elections certi- These are beautiful. and too sadly was certainly not to exchange political anomalies for two centur- has improved manner. ficates in which the Right was vic- true, words some one wrote: such Yoke for that of a Nazi Ger- ies. The Spaniard (it may be due Spanish economy ,and the cultural torious were annulled, and defeat- "Those were hot, intolerable July many or a Fascist Italy. Primo to his strong individuality) is life of Spain is expanding and He has reed candidates of the Left were de- nights. made endless by insomnia, de Rivera, it is true, had spent a rather an unruly person. who soaring every day. Many other de- accompanied by the sound of au- considerable time in Germany, but would hardly bear or submit to stored to the nation peace, reliclared elected. puties of the Right were expelled tomobiles that went, like meteors, his Falangists, at the outbreak of any external imposition if it does gion, freedom and work, And it in search of innocence, or came the war, were only a handful, so not accord with his own internal is surprising how a nation devasfrom Parliament." That was the great victory of with human prey to darkened that their influence and ideology disposition. If authority does not tated by the ravages of a total Yet elections in 1936. Nights of fever, ennervat- could never have been the lever of come up to expectation, he will civil war for three years can stand general cells. the it was not against an unconstitu- ing, pulsing with a hurried, an- the Nationalist Movement. Be- defy, challenge it, and only dog- so sure and upright on her feet This is the and with the smile of hope in her tional government that Spain rose guished beat, patrolled by Social- sides the first Ambassador that gedly submit to it. of are, There in arms; it was against a govern- ist and Communist militia, pistol Germany sent to Salamanca was one failing most salient' in his countenance. challenging, requested to leave owing to his character. Now, should any weak- course, malcontents, and when bragging, ment that thwarted its ill-seized, girded, and the lacking, ling triumph in the polls and be- and where were they usurped power to destroy every- bloodthirsty, drugged with that Nazi activities in Spain. As come the head of the Spanish peo- there might have been unavoidthing sacred and cherished in hatred that was a sign of Marxist Italian Fascism is concerned Mussolini said that it was not ple, as sure as we are here, and able deficiencies, but these are Spain, as well as to exterminate loyalty. Suffocating nights in that Sud- for export. And why should Spain as quickly as I say it, Spain would only straws on the surface, and its opponents and despoil them sad Madrid of July, 1936. of their possessions, offices or denly the city turned vicious as a need a foreign political system, fall into the state of anarchy of who would not overlook them in titles, in order to distribute them snake's nest, and men's eyes star- when the Carlists and the follow- old again. All the blood that had the limpid, tumid stream of peace arbitrarily among those who howl- ed suspiciously ,and the air was ers of Gil Robles, who constitut- been shed for her salvation would and freedom that is refreshing ed the lowest of the Marxist heavy with electric tension, and ed the vast majority of Franco's have been of no avail. But Spain Spain? (Continued on page 4.) the flight of augury blackened all soldiers, had their own programme, has learnt a bitter lesson and gang.
Inconceivable Anarchy and Terrorism Permitted Franco's Relations With the Axis and the Future