LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
An Alternative to Franco
SIR,—T would be grateful for a little space to clarify a few points. It is true one does not meet Communists in Spain ; theYdo not advertise them- selves. But only a few Communists are enough to start a revolution. No true lover of Spain wants that. When writing of " high Ministers," I did not mean Ministers of Cabinet rank, but rather those persons, imposed upon the great industries of the country. In England they have been at limes politicians, in Spain military personages.
The parties which Sr. Gil Robles led joined in the Civil War after it had started and in self-defence. In this sense they would be less objec- tionable to the opposition. I apologise if to Spaniards I seemed to have been laying down whom they should choose. We in England would not mind a foreigner suggesting that Churchill might save Britain, but Spaniards resent interference.
The real point is that a great many friends of Spain in this country earnestly desire to end the estrangement between Spain and England. One of the obstacles is the English distrust of dictatorships, even the most benign. The political and economic boycou certainly does not help Britain ; and while it embarrasses General Franco, it will not dis- lodge him except by revolution. Friendliness might lead to a rapproche- ment of outlook, and, of the two courses, it would seem the more Christian and the more constructive.—Yours faithfully,
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