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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER ‘19, 1946.
Having visited an ‘încomparably lovely country,' and seen with horror the violent contrasts that exist there, it is Mrs. BELINDA DAVIES? hope that one day she will return to a ‘different Spain, with its people being given the chance to live in freedom from fear, and famine, and disease.”
I
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FEEL almost as if I have to When I sat in the main square, give my credentials, for doing and, for the first time in Spain, say doga a tour of Spain at a time when hungry people and slarving the Spanish question is so hotly do- and begging children, I wondered bated. My explanation is merely whether I was really going to like this: I had always wanted to go to this country, which was certainly not Spain more than any other country the showpiece I had seen in modern In Europe, and "I had never been Madrid. I felt somewhat depressed. there before. As a child, Spain, in any case, because the road from meant to me Philip II and the Madrid to Toledo is scurred so bli- Spanish Armada and the 'riches of terly with civil war. the Indies, and, also, Washington The most ironical sight in Toledo Irving's Tales of the Alhambra. As is the row of chains hanging on the an adolescent, Spain meant El Greco enthedral wall, chains which and Goya and Velasquez. And, as taken from Christian captives when an adult, it meant the civil war and the Moors were driven out of Spain.; General Franco, I can truthfully The Moors never came back to Toledo l say that visiting it now meant all of until they were brought back by fight the those, and all of them mixed up to-General gether,
Franco, to
Spanlards.
were
'HULL OF
SPAIN...LAND OF CONTRASTS
I went expecting nothing more country, definite than a beautiful and I found the most indescribably beautiful country that I have ever No one will ever convince me that there can be anything loveller on earth than Spain,
seen,
Hike
any
Madrid airport Wus other airport, except that it Wits somewhat more incmclent, since it took an hour-and-a-half to clear the passengers on my 'plane. But I dla not worry when there was every sort of sherry I have ever thought of and I was warmer than I had been
In Toledo,
there are even
more lovely. How very rightly Washing- beautiful El Grecos than there are ton Irving described that perpetual in the Prado In Madrid, and, also, music of running water. Apart from there is one room in the Cathedral a plaque to Washington Irving: the where the riches of the Indies really honour and glory of Granada are for Gold figures with Ferdinand and Isabell, who rescued come to light.
elty
the Moors, and who emerald crowns and bracelets, unbe- the
sent Columbus to discover lievable wealth, which made me un- also
Thev sto derstand why Spain, then the richest America. country in the world, slowly decay- especially to be venerated ed and was so eusily defeated by an they managed in one reign to par- upstart Britain. The wearts of Spain secute and expel buth the Moors and is in the churches.
IN THE SOUTH
The Jews
from
evidently because
ber only too well waking up ono
By Cilos
WE ended our trip by going to
morning to a volley of shots, an two, Ronda, and then down to Jerez
more political prisoners were killedį against the cemetery wall.
de la Frontera, through the bot, rich
of Andalusia. There in plains
a
I would suggest to that extremely efficient
Spanish tourist agency, Tourismu, that, as long as the Spanish squire in Ronda, which crystallized. Government persists in the shooting for me what I had seen of Spain. I
would be of political prisoners, it
advisable not to open hotels so near need not say that is beautiful. cemelerics.
Although I
fascinated was
It contains a college for the rich.
and in love with the old Spanish Next to that is a barracks. Oppostic city of Granudo, I was glad to go to the barracks is a cathedral, partially were destroyed by the Republican forces the sea, partly because I knew that
Litile dild seaside places, though dull.
know my Spain. but now practically completely res- clean.
THE SEASIDE Detween Malaga and Torremolinas, which is certainly the loveliest
seaside spot I have ever visited, there
which are shacks on the beach in no rich Spaniard would keep his animals. He only keeps his work- men there.
ar
Fortunately, the MOOTS left behind them their wonderful,
Sierras, which N a first-class sleeper from Madrid' aqueduct from the
Cerialuly, as long as you stay in the caught my
first still, after 300 years, brings the water lo Granada, I
that hotel grounds or on the beach before the water runs-without flon in Spain, but alas not my last, down to Granada. The fact I presume If you feel by r
Ing-into
the fully clean and healthy; but do not the pipes made by the your villa, Torremolinos in beau- I could never wash their clothes and household scose and starvation. Wasis in its may account in part forget those bench slums, particular- expensive
nitor
for years, and I could sip my sherry enn avold being bitten in the south Spaniards, a large number of people venture out, or you was to find
and gaze across just a tiny portion of that perfection of austerity, Castilian plain.
MADRID
the
tored: next to the cathedral is the prison.
I did not see inside that, I only saw the small grille windows which made it quite certain thai those inside will have no view of the incomparably lovely sky of Andalusia. And oppo--
a hospital, for site the prison is which the only word is fantastic,
'A DREAM
ATE my lost enormous Spanish lunch at Ronda, and the view from the restaurant window was of
church, burnt out by the Republicans, I begin to understand the civil war and being rebuilt at the cost, so
because it
was told, of 1,000,000 pesetas sub-
I
round Madrid unifor more dirly shirts in England than healthy climates imaginable, because, very well by this time,
WALKED
two in the morning, and I found that many Spaniards did, too. It was wonderful-though I did get a little the sight of two armed tired of policemen on every corner. tell me that Madrid used to be the gayest capital in Europe, and I can well believe it because no elty lends itself to palety so well. It was not in the least pay when I was there.
The fart
BREATH-TAKING!
In
1
of Spain, but I travelled by train and bus. The assortment of flying and crawling things which bit me Splin
no reflection on the cleanll- for a peculiarly unpleasant form of ly when I watched, new ness of the Spanish people, who re- colle which everyone gets periodical-villas being built.
The sun and mountain air of main absolutely amazingly spruee
odds.
I have seen Granada must induce one of the most against impossible
It conditions existed in any English soovious to me that if you be !;
I ate my way through six black- in Spain.
have everything, and more are 300
a market courses. I thought of sup- got bitten by everything; and, from town as they do in Granada half the lieve that there are these, who must scribed by the rich. And I mused
children populution would dle of fever.
others an allen race-then, it Madrid southwards, I saw
is prepared to do any pression in Madrid; poverly government with the most awful sores I have
thing for that lower race, you might ever seen, many of which, I believe, They must be due to infected bites that
WHEN I think of the breath-taking figh. the government in every way, Toledo; discose and slums and
if everything else falls, with volley of shots in Granada; slums and could have been prevented by any
loveliness of Granada, with its old even,
arms. This is not theorising: it is starvallon in Malaga; siums nurse.
town beneath, and the orange-brown what I learned through being in the starvation and disease in Torremo Also in the south. I realised that walls of the Alhambra above, and w my belief that I had left starving the snow-capped Sterri Nevadas all country. And I also understood that times; diseased and starving children
government for hundreds of years children behind in Central Europe, round, I wish I did not have to re- if this other race found that the only on the railway from Mainga
In the south member sickness, und starvation, and which had been prepared to do some- Ronda. was entirely wrong.
then of Spain, the children of the poor
thing for them was attacked,
And I dreamed that, one day. I condition than worse
any animals.
a different Spain, you fight in any way, and, very often would return to сесп. They children I have ever
And I also wish, when I think of dirtily. I mo: people who had most have rickets, head sores. face Gores, beribert, and they are verminous and my bedrogin in Granada, with its of their families murdered after the where at least some attempt
families live in their incomparably lovely in rags. And they are so hungry that wrought-iron barred window with start of the civil war, and I found being made to allow its people to they will chew melon tind.
I pale blue plumbago scrambling up considerably more whose So I found the Alhambra; and it, I need only remember looking were practically wiped out, before,
famine, and discose. even the dreams of a child had out in the morning at another un- during, and after the civil war, by country in freedom from fear, and
the supporters of General Franco. never led me to imagine anything as matchable Spanish sky; but I remem-
But
but then it was out of season.
attractive, there were hundreds of girls in charming frodes and the best shoes-1 -have-over seen; and there were hundreds of delightful, sunburnt children.
I thought that if this were Spuin 覲 was wonderful; here, at
uny
rate, I was not going to be horrified and perpetually hurt, as I had been in Central Europe, by the sight of children undernourished as a result however, of the late war. I did," notice that the price of food in the restaurants was shops and in the fantastic.
Then, one day, I wandered into the poorer quarters of Madrid, and second vislied a few cafes, The
told day I was in the city, I was that there was freedom of speech certainly under the regime. This
been surprised me, because I had led, to believe otherwise, so I asked holding whether
involved meetings or speaking in public, or any of the things which mean free- In England and dom of speech America. It did not; it' meant that the regime had decided that since the Spaniard will talk, you might just as well let him talk in his own cafes and his home.
this
THE PEOPLE TALK AND they certainly do folk. I
found this everywhere I went; but I also found that in the cafes. they watch the door to see if a stranger comes in. And there is always some- one trying to protect the person who is tallting from buying too much.
Time after me, I have seen some-
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