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Page Two Ik CM H Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editmr scmscxtmas rates t SiJt Carnets m m tvm cl—i natter fmuary 21,; MCI. at a* i mauAet u Om pcs UHL Kartfc CxraLaa. wocr or *e as Maa 1, IPi Fighting for Likert? is Spam "The startling new* freer , Spam." writes Gerald W. John ftoz m tilt Baltimore Evening Sum . "i* not the boro bard men qPibi? «r that town, not the ad vance of this or that cojuror. n t oof ever. the eventual sueeess of Government or rebels It if sim ply that there are yet .id Europe —a»d id sleepy, lethargic old . Spain at that—million* of men and women who cherish liberty] so highly that they cheerfully f tue .in it* defense. "The fact that the poor derii* may be ' cherishing an illuak* doesn’t alter trie case: They are’ fighting for their belief*.*' It seem* to u* that the most tragic aspect of the civil war in Spain its that, whichever side wins, liber;} will probably lie dead ,for a lot g lime to come A dictatorship, either of the right'! or the left, is iz> prospect: repres sion, proscriptions, execution <>r : bamshrrient for the leader* of ; the losing faction, no free pre** or free speech. ir. Mr. Johnson's essay, it i* only the leftist* who are fight- j lag for liberty. 7’here is no *ug- 1 gestion that was of thousand* j ■of rebels an doing th< same i thing, or believe they are. Arid] the point of hi* essay i* that the; Heroism of men who are willing! to give up their live* for what. they befieee is right merits the admiration of the world ‘The fact that the poor devil* rr»av l>* * } < her.-rung an illusion doe*n't ai~ : ter ? he fact.'* If that t* true,! then the refe..~-<*r,e ma*> of' them, even J it "te; conceded that] ‘he military clique, the villain in the piece, is utterly wicked—are jo*t a * worthy of admiration a» ! their adversaries Ani* a Brenner ha* an article 1 in the Sution on "Who's Who ini Spain, ' iii which she estimate* that the proportion of the pop ulation on the Fascist (rebel) side "i* probably -i or 4 million of the total 24 million/' Jie *id<-b the “hired rnercenane*,” ] the “high-ranking officer* of the regular army," "the civilian ir regular* from the top and the dreg* of Spanish society/' there i*, write* Mi** Brenner, "the pennant element drawn mainly from the north, the only par* of Spain where there j* any consid erable number of small, prosper ous farmer*. They are conserva tive, devoutly Catholic, and Jinked to the large land-owners, especially the wheat grower*, through financing and market organization*, particularly the Catholic farmer*’ cooperative*. The rellglou* factor weighs very strongly with them." Now, the small farmers and tlie other Spaniard* who have espoused the rebel cause may be, in large part, the dupe* of their priests, and it may be that they are being used for the selfish purposes of the Fascist chief tains with whom (he priests are in alliance. But it is also pos sible that great number* of low ly and untutored men in the oth er camp are being used for the selfish purposes of anfbitiou# leaders. There is little reason to doubt that, as far as faith in their cause is concerned, the masses of the rebel* are just a* sincere ms the masses of the leftists; that each force is de fending itself, and attacking the other force, and arnimfUfng'bar. bsrities, with the absolute con viction of righteousness. In deed, the conviction of right eousness may be the best expla nation of the barbarities. As Mr, Johnson remarks lit his re view of a biography of Robes . pwu: "When a man knows he ■ ywm pcraavflßwtTt HIST lie si right, he become* capable of vil lainies that might appall a Foudbe or a Talleyrand." If either the leftists or the •rebels are to win a complete vic jtory ir Spain, we should rather I that it be the leftists. But our I preference for them is without enthusiasm. Our choice is, w hat we take to W the leaser of two •| evils. I Os course nobody know? just what sort of a government is ■coming for Spain, but the closest modem parallel * to the situation there—the revolution# in Rus sia and Italy and Germany—in dicate that it will not be a re publican government with free elections, a free press, and free j speech. The rebel leader? make |no concealment of their inten sion to establish a dictatorship. And if the leftists win, the-like i.hooc i* that the extremist* , within their ranks will seize con *rqJ of the country, just as the Bolshe- k* seized control of Rus sia'after the brief interval of Kerensky In which event, lib erty, a- we understand liberty jin America, will certainly not | prevail n. Spain. Here are reports and com rr,«r.*» upon the cr.il war in Spain, from both th<- right and the left point of view*: William 7 S ’ uddard, British 1 journalist, who was in Madrid when tha revolt oegan, writes from Marseilles for the New IYork //< rnld 7 < hu m ! “Mar y person* abroad, appar ently unacquainted with Spain and her politics, relieve that the' 'h i! war j* a figb ’ oetween dem-; ocracy and dfietatorship. Thi* , a great mistake, because ,*hi<he.er *j<ie win* the proba bility that democracy will sur vive in Spain is slim. ‘The i-sue,- in the civil War | are dear The rebellion j* a na jtionai movement of many class-i |e*—l fight Republicans, Mortar ' h;*ts, f a*holies, traditionalists i and other*, who have combined efforts to save Spain from th«- I v. 'alb-d People’* Front govern ment which i* dominated by Red j dement*— Communist*. Social ists, Syndicalists: and Anar chists. The re!*el;. want to save their country from the domina tion of Mow ow and they regard the war a* a fight to save Chris tianity. "In Madrid, Barcelonia, Valen cia and other territory controlled by the People's Front govern ment, there ha* been a wanton destruction of churches, con vents and monasteries, with their works of art from many centuries past. Priests and nuns have been murdered in wild blood. ‘The Soviet star, hammer, and sickle are painted over the facades of other churches. Many churches have beef? seized by Marxist* as headquarters for their organizations. Private houses and palace* also have been seized by radical groups. “Red or r»*i and black flags are to be seen waving over scores of buildings in Madrid. Outside many cases and hotels are printed or chalked notices that the buildings are controlled by the Syndicalist or Socialist labor organizations. "According to Premier Jose Giral Pereira, a Kp-ek-appearing pharmacist who is'Sko Minister ofdhe Navy, persons of Rightist sympathies have not been exe cuted in Madrid on the whole sale scale that they were in Bar celona. Nevertheless, profes sional workers in Madrid, wives' of Monarchists and Right-Wing Republicans, as well as similar credible source*, assert that more than BdO priests, Fascists and other members of the Right were taken from their Madrid homes in the middle of the night and slain in the Casa de Campo, THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY. CHAPEL HIU* N. C j \ . ri. , , • ,4 a large park on the outskirts of the capital during the first three weeks* of the civil war. “President Manuel Arana's Left Republican party and the | Republican Union party—the two parties cm which the pres ent Spanish government was formed—are the virtual slaves s* ■ of the Marxists, who have saved .the government so far by wag ing stubborn war with the Rightist force? on the various | fronts. "If the Madrid government ) should win the civil war. these Marxist? group* would overrun .the handful of bourgeois and i Left Republicans and seize pow er. Even thii. would not bring peace because then, so it aj>- ; pears. ■■-t.be Syndicalist labor or igan izat ion and cither Marxist group* would fight each other jfor supremacy and Spain would Ibe pl unged into a state of an archy unpleasant to con tern plate ' 1 * 1 Fr man editorial in the .Ya ! tion : ! “While the chanceries of Lon f dor* and Pari* indulge in tele phonic consultations and con . vince themselves by their much j speak ,ng that they are getting | something done, the Spanish | proletariat is making a heroic 1 stand against the menace of re | neweej slavery. 7'he Spanish mass*.-- are the \jent educated ] politica. lysin'the Western world. They know a* well a* the Hit •lers and Mussolini*, the Bald wins and Blums, what in in the i balam e If there is one thing more *rjki«g than another aixiut *k;* extraordinary war, it jis the ,a<k of individual hercies. The hero is the mass—the mas* (that mor./ize* itself, arms itself, feeds itsfif, and hurls itself against sr,<- insurgents in a greafi irres-istibie wave.” From Anita Brenner s article in the S'jtwr, - ‘The struggle in Spain must I he regasdi-d in three ways:-It-is a major battle in the revolution ary marclj of the world; it. is a deadly game of international politics; it i- the climax of mod erri Spanish history, TJftwdeci- factor* in each, 4iov,yv< r, ar»- ail facets of one thing 'la',* war. Its outcome jn Spain rnu.-t affect the fate of millions in ev < ry country. "In the pres*, this faK of cla.-s war, and its international char a' ter, in hidden behind an opaque s«-re«n of ignorance, misunder standing, arid downright lying. The Spanish people are gratu (tiously insulted every day in most of our newspapers 7Vee, for example, call* the wore m jx asaut* and workers who are defending with their lives ever - thing that life means to them, ‘flat-footed mobster#/ Km .g critic* reprove them for shed ding blood in their battle again t reactionaries who actually talk of ‘extinguishing the proletar lat/ H<*arst’s Knickerlioitker hits a new low in procuring atrocity stories to discredit the fiopular militia, A» part of that process the Spanish ja-ople* anny is made to upftesr as a great, formless, dangerous mob, 7’he organizations conducting the defense are blurred; their disciplines and doctrines are lumped so as to make mob, So cialist, Communist, anarchist, massacre, all read jsn one work. "The fact is simply this: Si»air) is being defended by work er and peasant committees 'sanc tioned' by a republican front. Except where the rebels are in power, the government is the same combination of real power In the workers' committee, rub ber-stamped by the Republicans,, With the Asturias as precedent, we can be quite sure that an as tonishing story will be told of how these committees organize and control the food-supply, pre vent irresponsible violence, £ n d maintain essential services. "These workers’ and peasants’ I committees are at the center of | the Spanish resistance to fas cism. They are responsible and disciplined. They know their own strength. Knowing they represent the great majority pf the people, they know that the future belongs to them—so they guard and conserve as much a* they can. While the fascist* announce that they will take Madrid. ‘reconquer’ Spam, whatever the’cost/ the Work -r*‘ Alliances say over and over again, ‘Let us be careful; let us not shoot until we have to, let ,s destroy as little as possible. 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