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THURSDAY, July 24, 1936,
CHILD BEGGAR PROBLEM
SPAIN
IN THE MELTING POT
In this
What is happening in Spain to-day and what is going to happen? article George Slocombe draws a parallel with the revolution of the U.S.S.R.
increasing
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ile financial the first country to follow in
FINALLY, there is the Government the path of Bolshevik Russia.
danger common to all policy. The Socialist suppor- The prophecy has yet to be ful- forms of absolute government- ters of Senar Azana and Senor filled, but recent events, even to the danger that an individual Martinez Barrio have placed the their apparently abortive Kor- may be exalted above an idea, nationalisation of the banks and niloff-like attempt at a military that the doctrine may be the larger agricultural estates d'état undertaken this merged in the personality of the in the foreground of their pro- week by Generals Dellano and diefator,
gramme.
CORD
clear.
which overthrow tavo Left
France be
HETHER they will it Mola, have brought the run- Senor Manuel Azana is a Undoubtedly the Government or no, the actors in the summation of the historic singular ally for the Spanish will be pressed to follow up the The child beggar problem.
Spanish drama cannot parallel appreciably nearer, which, as will be seen. from a
Socialists and Communists. He amnesty of the 30,000 political but be conscions of the report Alsewhere in this issur,
analogy hetween The moral of the frustrated has nothing of the simple and prisoners by drastic financial has been engaging the attention
own history and the effort of the Fascist generals is naive impulses which unimated and economic measures. The of the Society for the Protec-their
the bloodless revolution of reaction of the Centre and Right tion of Children, is one present- events in Russia in 1917. ing many most dillicult aspects. There are resemblances too Th
in 1931, or the bloodý uprisings of to any such measures will he Government. Luft These difficulties would not be striking to be overlooked: to Spain, in order to enjoy the October, 1934. His political violent. nearly so pronounced if the each
absolute fruits of its victory in the history, like that of his Fascist Government assumed its full monarchy fallen in ruins, elections of Feb. 16, will be adversary, Gil Robles, begins. A repetition of the tactics obligations in the matter of so-large, unorganised, illiterate forced to establish some kind of with the Republic. cial service, instead of leaving pelisuntry, a comparatively ac dictatorship. A dictatorship' such service almost wholly to tive, organised and intelligent inevitably involves the suspen his intellectual researches, in tween 1924 and 1926 my be
The Republic called him from Governments in unofficial initiative. The situa-industrial population, a still sion of constitutional guaran- tion in regard to these juvenile feudal Church supporting a fees the liberty of the Press the Atheneum of Madrid, of expected. There will be secret, famous literary and exports of capital on a raster mendicants was well presented semi-feudal State.
and of meeting, the right of which
scientific Institution he the
of right Lenin, impressed by these organisation.
was scale than that which followed by Mr. Hazlerigg at Monday's
librarian-as it called, in Ger the fall of the monarchy in meeting of the Executive Com-familiar phenomena, confidently criticism.
many, on the eve of the mittee of the Society mentioned. | predicted that Spain would, he
1931. The The next revolt against an triumph of litler.
Bank of Spain is another It's probably quite true that the
authoritarian government, oven cold, precise, ascetic type, Dr. already accused by the Left of great majority of these children
Left. Bruning. government of the ia
anticipate attempting to The_Republic financial crisis by its transfor bas now invest- of gold bullion to the value of ed him, in an 50 million pesetas to Barcelona, hour of danger.
who are physically fit are far NOTES OF THE DAY may well come..
S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. better off in the streets, even if
YORK BUILDING.
CHATER ROAD.
LANE, CRAWFORD'S
SUMMER
SALE
SWEEPING REDUCTIONS
"Chilprufe"
• SLEEPING SUITS
BABIES' SHAWLS
TO BE CLEARED AT
HALF
PRICE!
CHILDREN'S DEPT.
DURING THE SALE THE STORE WILL REMAIN OPEN UNTIL 5.30 P.M. DAILY.
not from de-
By George Slocombe
FL
with the role in convenient proximity to the and the au- French frontier. thority
Robespierre.
Monarchists and Conserva-
they do beg, than in the un- home conditions ta savoury
Improved conditions in Great mocracy's 'pre- which they would otherwise be Britain are reflected in the in- sent enemies on [exposed; whilst such money as
comes of the working classes, and the Right. but. they do manage to pick up un wages have moved upward rapidly from. its tem- doubtedly goes, where they are during the past eighteen months,porary allies Mannal workers have received on the extreme not professionally employed by
more money during the, first half Left-the syndicates, into the family of the present year than during a narcho- chequer. In this connection the any comparable period for the past syndicalists. nearly a million matic personality he shares. the resources of his vast for Thealthy condition of many of [twelve years. An extra £20,000-strong, whose hostility to all
these youthful beggars many have 400 a year has been added to their forms of parliamentary govern measure of his character in the the Left, and who is now a He has already given some tune into the struggle against- heen noted. But there are two spending power. other types of children for witom recently published showing hement has always created
wage movements have varied dar- quite peculiar political pheno- Robespierrean utterance: "In voluntary exile, have already the menon in Spain, and who were politics it is dangerous to have transferred large sums of money
Statistics were
ing recent Years. When "economic izzard" struck the only induced
to enter the
it should be possible to do some- thing-those who are obviously
and those who are being exploit- generally suffered 'severe euts.their desire to avenge the
whose cold, un- tive magnates, like the famous emotional, enig- Don Juan March who threw
friends." He can be suspected.
in need of medical treatment, country ¡31 19:1 wage-rates electoral struggle on Feb. 16 by of little secret sympathy for the to banks abroad.
Socialism of his ally and suppor- A financial crisis, if it occurs,
of ex-
ed by people who may or may There were further reductions dursavage reprisals against work- ter, Largo Calellero, and still
to another and graver not be their parents or legal ing the following two years. In ing-class comrades in Madrid less for the Communism of his will be, however, but the pre-
more violent, if more critical, lude guardians. The trouble is, how. 1934 the tide turned and the in- Barcelona and Asturius.
partisan, José Diaz.
struggle: the struggle for econo- fever, that whilst the law makes, comes of the workers increased by The following nearly £5,900,000.
There are other objections to
mic power. provision for the possible trans-year the increases totalled nearly the institution of a Left dicta- His conservatism in social. fer of such children to a suitable £10,000,000. During the 'first
political and economic ques- Spain is a country torship in Spain. institution, the Government has Tour months of 1936 there have
tions has already gained him a tremes: wealth is concen- Laken no steps to implement the | been
over of total increases
There is first the question of certain support among the trated in comparatively, few law by seeing that such institu- £14,000,000.
practicability. Domocrats bunkers. At the first threat of hands. tions are brought into being.
A small oligarchy of During the past few weeks two lend themselves besitatingly a financial crisis, or the first Indeed, it was stated at the important Industrial agreements and unwillingly to vast mea- schism in the temporary unity men control the banks, ship- S.P.C. meeting that, so far as have been reached which will im-gures of coercion, even when of the Left coalition, he may be ping, industry and agriculture. is known, the provisions of the prove conditions in the shipping such measures have the legal expected to seek support in the There is no infinitely graduated Juvenile Offenders Ordinance innd the engineering industries. sanction of A parliamentary more congenial circles of the middle class, as in England and this regard have not so far been to deckbands. The traditional majority and the consent of Centre.
France, and no large population
The Seamen's Agreement relates
its
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OTH Azan an GI
invoked. The Government at-wo-watch system of four hours the Chief of the State. They Little divides him. in essential of peasant-proprietors to op titude in regard to the under on duty and four hours off, making ure incking in the psychology taking of social service is that, a twelve-hour day or an eighty- of dictators. They have not questions of policy and tactics, pose collective measures of ex- whilst it realises the necessity four hour week, will be reduced by the superb egoism which ani- from the still redoubtable lea
the Mussolinis, the der of the panty of Popular Proprintion and nationalisation. thereof, it is precluded by rea-twentys a week, and over-mates
time will be paid. Although this Hitlers and the Pilsudskis.
Action--which with over 120 In sons of financial stringency from does not give the seamen an actual
essence the democratic seats in the Cortes' remains the taking appropriate action. In increase of wages; it does give this connection, past experience them a very considerable advance only be effectually exercised by State but their respective at- Russin in the days of the Tsars, Moreover, a dictatorship can strongest single party in the struggle in Spain, like that in suggests that even if the Gov-for each hour that they work. In a single parly, in the interests titudes to the Church.
is a struggle for liberty of ernment did assume its obliga- the engineering Industry represen- of a single doctrine. There are
opinion, for freedom from the tions, the expense would most tatives of thirty-seven unions have no historical instances that I likely be extremely
lingering vestiges of absolutism, heavy. accented the employers' offer of an
and for bread. Government buildings are notornerease of three shillings a week can call to mind of an effective..
to all mult male workers. It is dictatorship having been im- iously costly to erect, added to estimated that the increase will posed on a nation by a coalition which is the question of staffing. affect nearly one million nien, of such diverse individuals, of the modern school, con threatened to revive the worst Something might, however, be
parties and doctrines as those temptuous of tradition, realists, done if the authorities encour-
assembled for tactical purposes freed from the Oriental fatalism features of the monarchy. n. aged, by increased financial tion. Now that the S.P.C. has in the Spanish Popular Front-which acts like an oplate on the Spain, hus apparently been de grants, the expansion of existing brought it to the fore, it is to bel coalition of Republican minds of many of their country- fied. industrial homes. In this way, hoped that the Government will Unionists undor Martinez men. But Gil, Robles, like his any question of wasteful expen- carry out the necessary inves Barrio, of Left Republicans compeer Prince Starlemberg in If, as cabled reports indicate, diture would be eliminated, andtigations
some under Manuel Azana, of Social Austria, bases his plans for the the present revolt is finally there would be an assurance that method by which the intent of iste, Communists and Trade renovation of Spain on the re- crushed, the next great phase all the children were profitably oc-the Juvenile Offenders Ordinance Unionists,
temporarily vived authority of Rome.
of the Spanish Revolution may Jeupied and fitted for a useful in regard to the proper care of united in their common fear
Fascist, Clorical and The Imponderable which may complete the parallel with the life. The whole problem...cer-these children may be put into of a
determine-the-fate-of-the-Left-Russia-of-Lenin. Itainly calls for serious considera- leffect.
Monarchist reaction."
und
devise
BOTH
Robles are Spaniards The menace of Fascism which