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THURSDAY, JULY 23, HERG;

CHILD BEGGAR PROBLEM

The child beggar problem. which, as will be seen from a report elsewhere in this issue,

SPAIN

IN THE MELTING POT

In

the first country to follow in

What is happening Spain to-day and what is going to happen? In this article George Slocombe draws a parallel with the revolution of the U.S.S.R.

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has been engaging the attention increasing

of the Society for the Protec- their

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FINALLY.

INALLY, there is the Government is its financial the path of Bolshevik Russia,

danger, common to all policy. The Socialist suppor~ The prophecy has yet to be ful- forms of absohite government- ters of Senor 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 my be the larger agricultural · estates

coup dient undertaken This merged in the personality of the in the foreground of their pro- week by Gerals Dellano and dictator,

gramme.

HETHER they will it Mola, have brought the con- 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 Spanish drama cannot parallel appreciably nearer. Socialists and Communists. He amnesty of the 30,000 political

but be conscious of the

analogy between The moral of the frustrated has nothing of the simple and prisoners by drastic financial own history and the effort of the Fascist generals is naive impulses which animated and economic, measures. The

clear.

the bloodless revolution tion of Children, is one present-events in Russia in 1917.

of reaction of the Centre and Right

ing many most difficult aspects. There are resemblances too The Luft. Government in 1931, or the bloody uprisings of to any such measures will bur These difficulties would not be striking to be overlooked: in Spain, in order to enjoy the October, 1934, HIN political violent. nearly so pronounced if the each country JUIL absolute fruits of ita 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, Bliterate forced to establish some kind of with the Republic.

which overthrew two Left cial service, instead of leaving peasantry, a comparatively ac dictatorship. A dictatorship

France be- such service almost wholly to tive, organised and intelligent inevitably involves the suspen- his intellectual researches in tween 1924 and 1926 may be

The Republic called him from Governments in unoffici: initiative. The situa

industrial population, a still- sion of constitution: guaran-

Church supporting tion in regard to these juvenile feudal

a tees the liberty of the Press the Atheneum of Madrid, of expected. There will be secret

famous literary mendicants was well presented

and of meeting, the right of which

and exports of capital on a vaster by Mr. Hazlerigg at Monday's Lenin, impressed by these organisation. the right of scientific institution was scale than that which followed librarian-as it called. in Ger- the fall of the monarchy in many, on the eve of the

semi-feudni State.

meeting of the Executive Com-familiar phenomena, confidently criticism.

he

mitter of the Society mentioned. | predicted that Spain would be The next revolt against an triumph of Hitler, another 1931. The Bank of Spain is

It is probably quite true that the great majority of these children

who-are-physically-fit-are--far--Pla

----⠀unthoritarian government, even cold, precise,

a government of the Left, Bruning.

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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 THÉ STORE WILL REMAIN OPEN UNTIL 5.30 P.M. DAILY.

By George Slocombe

ascetic type. Dr. already accursed by the Left of attempting to anticipate 'L The Republic financial crisis by its transfer has now invest of gold bullion to the value of ed him, in an

hour of danger, 50 million pesetas to Barcelona, with the Pale in convenient proximity to the artd the an- French frontier. thority of

Robespierre,

Monarchists and Conserva-

whose cold, an- tive magnates, like the famous emotional, enig- Don Juan March who threw

nut from de. they do beg, than in the un-

mocracy's pre- savoury home conditions to Improved conditions in Great 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 tom- doubtedly goes, where they are during the past eighteen months. ponry allie* not professionally employed by Manual workers have received on the extreme more money during the first half Left-the syndicates, into the family ex-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- healthy condition of many of twelve years. An extra £20,000 strong, whose hostility to all these youthful beggars may have000 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 been noted.

Statistics were But there are two spending power.

# Robespierrean utterance: "In voluntary exile, have already other types of children for whom recently published showing how ment has always created it should be possible to do some wage movements have varied dur quite peculiar political pheno-

the menon in Spain, and who were politics it is dangerous to have transferred large sums of money ing recent years. When thing-those who are obviously "economic blizzard"

struck

induced the only

enter the friends." in need of medical treatment:country in 1931 wage-rates electoral struggle on Feb. 16 by of little sceret sympathy for the to banks abroad.

cuts their desire to severe

and those who are being exploit- generally

£10,000,000.

suffered

During

the first

lo

He can be suspecteri

Socialism of his ally and suppor,

the avenge

•

A financial crisis, if it occura,

to another, and graver struggle: the struggle for econo- mic power.

fed by people who may or may There were further reductions dur savage reprisals against work ler, Largo Caballero, and still will be, however, but the pre-

not be their parents or legal ing the following two years. Ining-class comrades in Madrid, less for the Communism of his

more violent, if more critical, lude guardians. The trouble is, how-1934 the tide turned and the Barcelona and Asturias.

partisan. José Díaz. ever, that whilst the law makes comes of the workers increased by The following nearly £6,000,000.

There are other objections to provision for the possible trans-

His conservatism in social, fer of such children to a suitable ear the creases totalled nearly the institution of a Left dicta-

political and economic

ques- Spain is a country of ex- institution, the Government has four months of 1936 there have torship in Spain.

tions has already gained him a tremes: wealth is concen- taken no steps to implement the [him Total increases of over: There is first the question of certain support among the trated in comparatively few law by seeing that such institu£14,000,000.

its practicability. Democrats bankers. At the first threat of

hands. A Lions are brought into being. During the past few weeks two lend themselves hesitatingly a financial crisis, or

small oligarchy of the first Indeed. it was stated. #t the important industrial agreements and unwillingly to vast mea schism in the temporary unity men control the banks, ship- S.J.C. meeting that, so far as have been reached which will im-sures of 'coercion, even when of the Left coalition, he may be ping, industry and agriculture. is known, the provisions of the prve conditions in the shipping such measures have the legal expected to seek support in the There is no infinitely graduated Juvenile Offenders Ordinance in

and the engineering industries. sanction of 11 parliamentary more congenial circles of the middle class, as in England and The Seamen's Agreement relates this regard have not so far been to deckhands. The traditional majority and the consent of Centre.

France, and no large population 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 are lacking 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 thereaf, it is precluded by ren-twenty hours a week, and over-mates the Mussolinis,

the der of the party of Popular propriation and nationalisation, 120 Action-which with over sons of financial stringency from does not give the seamen an actual

time will be paid, Although this Hitlers and the Pilsudskis.

In essence, the democratic seats in the Cortes remains the taking appropriate action. In

the struggle in Spain, like that in Increase of wages, it does give Moreover, a dictatorship can strongest single party in this connection, past experience them a very considerable advance only be effectually exercised by State but their respective at- Russia in the days of the Tsars, suggests that even if the Gov-for each hour that they work. In a single party, in the interests titudes to the Church.

is a struggle for liberty of ernment did assume its oblign the engineering industry represen- of a single doctrine. There are

opinion, for freedom from the tions, the expense would most tatives of thirty-seven untone have

historical instances that I likely

lingering vestiges of absolutíum, extremely heavy, accepted the employers offer of an Government buildings are notor-nerease of three shillings a week can call to mind of an effective to all adult male workers. It la dictatorship having been im-

POTH 'Azana and Gil and for bread." iously costly to erect, adtled to estimated that the increase will posed on a nation by a coalition DRobles are Spaniards The menace of Fascism which which is the question of staffing, affect nearly one million men. 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-

be

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assembled for tactical purposes freed from the Oriental fatalism features of the monarchy in aged. by increased financial tion. Now that the S.P.C. has in the Spanish Popular Front-which acts like an opiate on the Spain, has apparently been de- grants, the expansion of existing brought it to the fore, it is to be coalition of Republican minds of many of their country-fied. industrial homes. In this way, hopel that the Government will Unionists under Martinez men. But Gil Robles, like his

devise

any question of wasteful expen-carry out the necessary inves- Barrio, of Left Republicans compeer Prince Starhemberg in If, as cabled reports indicate, diture would be eliminated, and tigations and

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- crusheil, the next great phase the children were profitably oc- the Juvenile Offenders Ordinance Unionista, all temporarily vived authority of Bone of the Spanish Revolution may. cupied and fitted for a useful in regard to the proper care of united in their common fear

The imponderable which may complete the parallel with the life. The whole problem cer- these children may be put into of a Fascist, Clerical and

determine the fate of the Left Russia of Lenin, Itainly calls for serious considera- 'effect.

Monarchist reaction.