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...what could be more depraved than that now charged by Mr. Alfred Cope [TIME, June 19], administrator of the American Friends Service Committee, against General Franco? Mr. Cope says that six or seven shiploads of food intended for the starving children who are victims of the Totalitarian blockade of Loyalist Spain, were deliberately diverted by Franco to feed his army...
...Republican John Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, member of the Dies Un-American Activities Committee, leaped up to flay Poet MacLeish as a "fellow traveler" of the Communist Party, a cofounder of the League of American Writers ("of the 23, twelve were well-known Communists"), an active sympathizer with Loyalist Spain...
Justice. While France made every effort to persuade the former Loyalists to go back home, much of the news that filtered through the tightly censored French-Spanish frontier was not calculated to encourage mass reentry. Eighteen permanent tribunals were said to be working in Madrid trying Loyalists; there were said to be 500 arrests in Barcelona and Madrid daily; 2,000 awaited trials in Madrid alone; 688 have been executed; 20,-ooo were in a concentration camp near Alicante. Although there were accusations still outstanding against 1,000,000 persons in former Loyalist territory, the police appealed to the public...
Relief. A greater tale of woe was brought back from Spain to the U. S. last week by Alfred Cope, regional director in southeastern Spain of the American Friends Service Committee, the Quaker relief organization. Mr. Cope believed that some 500,000 Loyalist supporters were in concentration camps; he thought that at least 70,000 Italian troops remained in Spain, despite stories of withdrawals; he told one story of 20,000 Loyalist troops imprisoned in a bullring in Ciudad Real for 20 days with little food and not much water...
...While the food lasted, moreover, the official orders in the clinic were that the children had to sing the Franco Nationalist songs before they were fed," said Mr. Cope. "We never asked them to sing Loyalist songs when the Loyalists held that territory, and we do not now like to ask them to sing Nationalist songs in thanksgiving for our food...