* Spain We cannot yet judge the future results of
the Spanish elections. But the returns have shown that the Socialists and Republicans must predominate together, without predominating one over the other, in the Cortes. The two parties must combine to support the Government. The Monarchists and Catholics will be poorly represented except from the North-East of the Peninsula. The Royalists generally made little show in the elections. Many of them were doubtless intimidated, for they were conscious that they were the unpopular party. Though the accounts are conflicting, there certainly was, as might be expected, a good deal of intimidation before and during the elections. Others felt bound by the patriotic wishes of Don Alfonso, consistent with his last royal orders that the loyal half of his Army, should not fight for him, as they wished. He had said that his still loyal subjects should not let his cause add to the distractions and strife of his country. The Communists, though well trained in incendiarism and other forms of violence, as they showed here and there, proved to be few and to have fewer disciples. A revolt against the Government led by' the wild airman Franco has come to nothing. * a * *
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