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The "Telegraph" does not take sides in the Spanish
civil
war,
but we
give a platform to Professor
J. B. S. HALDANE
F. R. S., famous scientist
who has returned to England from Madrid, where he went to advise the Government on
HAVE just passed a month in Spain, advis- ing the authorities on defence against gas.
Much of my time was spent with the International Column, that surprising body of volun- teers which on at least one otca- sion saved Madrid. For some days I lived the life of an ordi- mary soldier in the column.
1 remember a dinner with. some hundreds of us sitting at long benches. I found myself acting as interpreter between an Italian who spoke French and a Hungarian who spoke German. A draft, had just come in from England. The food and wine were excellent, but the English boys demanded beer, which is something of a luxury in Spain, and I managed to scrounge -triple-wine-ration:
a day LATER, I spent
the English- speaking battalion. Their clothes were variegated. Some khaki trousers, some.corduroy.
with
wore
Some wore forage caps, others blue berets. Their close order drill was comic, but their open order work was impressively good.
another as "comrade."
ent. When
gas warfare
“Women in Madrid do not wear hats, and most of the blondes are undergoing à transformation: Madrid has run out of peroxide."
There is a tremendous opportunity in Spain for a real live Protestantism."
*
French
war-
I am something of a snob about fare, but I confined my criticism tó a personal demonstration of cowardice."
made from macaroni whent, not bread wheat. Butler is rare. The bulk of most of my meals consisted of beans and lentils,. with a few scraps of meat, or small dried fish. Most provi- dentially I like beans, but I think I detected some signs of malnutrition in middle-aged civilians. Nevertheless, I be lieve that Madrid is bottor fed than Merthyr.
VERY
few
Catholic
churches in · Madrid are used for religious purposes. Likewise, very few have been destroyed. I saw only two such;. one had been wrecked by n large air bomb, the other had clearly been set alight deliber- ately. Certainly the damage is far less than was done in Eng- land, let alone Scotland, during the. Reformation.
Some churches are ahut, others are used for a variety of purposes. When the anarchists occupy a church they usually decorate the images of the Virgin Mary with their colours, and the anarchists of Aragon have a song according to which the Virgin of the Pillar of Sara- gossa is their captain. They claim that her words about put ting down the mighty from. their seat and exalting the humble tre sound anarchism.
To my great surprise I en- countered no anti-religious pro- paganda whatever, either in the newspapers or posters, though plenty of anti-clerical. A typi- cal remark, in an anarchist comic column, was that Jesus had rebelled against the rich, but His alleged servants to-day showed their humility by only rebelling against the poor.
I believe there would be a tremendous opportunity in. Spain for a real live Protestan- tism, though I saw no sigri that this opportunity was being taken.
I SPENT some time in
the trenches near Madrid, though I was not in-. volved in any actual fighting. As I was bombing officer to the 1st (Guards) Brigade of the B.E.F. in 1916 I am rather a- snob_about_trench warfare, There was plenty to criticise.
Parapets were too flimay, com- traverse too far apart, munication trenches not deep enough, and so on. But then I reflected. Here were a thou- sand Spanish militiamen with- out a single professional officer. Their trenches were not perfect. They would suffer needless. casualties in a bombardment..
my
scene, in - a school converted into a field hospital. A Canadian
WENT up to Madrid I am told that until December They seemed to be wasting small- on the outside of a lorry driven murders occurred every night. soldiers, and would put up a very on a very cold night Madrid was a rowdy place, and arms ammunition. But obvious. ly chough they were keen As regards deference to off; most alarmingly by a French-
By Christmas it was far more good fight if attacked. cers they do not quite reach the man called Comrade Marius. I
So I confined my criticisms to there in 1933. In three weeks a personal demonstration · of between two cases of ammuni- standard set by the Brigade of was packed most precariously orderly than when I was last
I never saw a drunken man, a cowardice. The militiamen were Guards. Indeed, it would be tion.
beggar, or a crime of any kind, still at that early stage of rather difficult to do so when
The lorry broke down so fre- although there are no police valour where one risks one's life officer and private address one quently that the journey took patrolling the streets, and I was unnecessarily. Whenever
ten hours, and I acquired a often out late at night.
companions started an animated cough so violent as to give rise
I naturally looked for signs of conversation in full. view of the But when it comes to keen to a rumour that I had been starvation or disease in the enemy I lay down. Fortunately with the colours necessarily. ness the story is rather differ- severely gassed.
people. I soon noticed a start- the enemy were Spanish Fas- Madrid has been
mildly ling phenomenon. Women in cists, who are very bad shots, so I suggested to a separates him from the main
shelled and heavily bombed. I Madrid do not wear hats, and no harm was done.. stream of life of his contem-squad, which I was instructing was prepared to find a city of it was clear that most of the
A LAST were undergoing a. poraries and diminishes his that they might like to break desolation. I found nothing of blondea
In the majority of transformation. chances in the labour market. off for lunch I was greeted with the sort.
streets not a single house has Their hair was becoming surgeon attached to the, Inter- The Secretary of War has just highly improper language. You been damaged. If one has been brown at the roots, producing national Red Aid is giving blood
think that those boys Ypres, or even Arras, in the al remarkable piebaldness. transfusions. The blood is col announced that he hopes to make may
have no business in Spain. Still, great war, Madrid seems hardly Madrid has run out of hydrogen lected in Madrid from volun- arrangements whereby every sol-
touched.
peroxide, and the brutal Red tears, mostly women, kept on ice dier with a good record will have they do represent the honour of
Nevertheless, some thousands Government does not regard it till wanted, and then warmed Britain in the eyes of the of civilians have been killed and as a necessity, and will not up. Spanish people. And they are wounded, besides a few soldiers, allow any more to be sent up Here is a Spaniard with a big his term as a soldier is finished. not going to let their country If a soldier is killed by an air except for use in hospitals. shoulder wound. He is white There are now in existence three
bomb that is nows, whereas the
The other great shortage is of from loss of blood, and Army Vocational Training Cen-
death of a dozen children is not fuel. Food is rationed, and move nothing but his eyes. But nows any more. The bombers there are tres, where serving soldiers obtained employment. The pro- now concentrate their attacks shops. But the coal, queues are
queues outside the you can see that he accepts his logical attitude. He could pass learn to be artisans and crafts-blem now is to extend the voca- on the poorest and most crowded much longer and more quarrel for a San Sebastian by one of
quaters of Madrid, and do a good some than the bread queues. the great Spanish painters. men. At the Aldershot centre tional training system and link deal of killing there.
For about twenty minutes I' alone twenty different trades and it up with industry in the widest
There is just enough fuel for hold up a bottle of blood which crafts are taught. That they sense. This is one of the hims
THIS may have some cooking, and no more. I got a
military justification, hot. bath about December 23, runs slowly down a rubber tube into a vein in his arm. His well taught is attested which the Government has in since it is forcing the Govern and that was, my only bath in by the
colour returna. To judge from women Spain. But there is food for his face he is suffering rather fact that the men view, and if it is accomplished it and children, and thus to put very one; in fact I think one is
ment to evacuate the
are readily found jobs
more. As the needle is with on will have most desirable con- n big strain on its communica much surer of getting food in drawn from his arm he tries to their discharge from the sequence and be a factor in at- tions. On the other hand, it Madrid to-day than six months speak. He is still too weak, but Army; of the 1,184 who left one tracting men of the right typo against France, and persuaded,
has united the people of Madrid 4go.
he raises his clenched fist to his centre last year, 1,018 promptly for service with the colours.
The quality is, however, bad. forehead and gives the Red tliem to obey orders.
The bread is a hard, brittle stuff. Front salute,
are
down.
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