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* | THE VOLUNTEER FOR LIBERTY oN a n- . 9? er This policy bas already aroused world: wide suspicion, and its reception by the democrats of Spain is ail too aptly bolised Sy the attitude of Pablo Is, the great Spanish ‘cellist, who has announced that he will never again give another concent’ in Britain while the policy of bolstering op Spanish Fascism ? x yN Franco’s Health Service © There are 30,000 cases of tubercutcsis . in Bilbao alone, according to a reliable : correspondent who recently visited the 4 city. Hospital acommodation is insuffi- 2 cient for even a tenth of these, and if ‘ you need to mto hospital in Bilbao you have to obtain a certificate, not from ‘ you doctor, but from your parish priest. - is easy to imagine the kind of NX‘ victimisation that can and does occur. » Sq Remember this when you next reag nnaas \ of Frasco prating sbout * Christian oa tt en r . Hans Kahle, who commanded the 45th : Division of the i Republican ‘ Army amd ia well known in this country, , where he spent the war years, has at last _ been ed ta return to Germany. To him and the other German Inier- national Brigaders whe have left Britain we send our warihest greetings. * "First performance of the new opera “THE PARTISANS” 7 «by INGLIS GUNDRY (commissioned — pag Readers birt eS a ee Eg 7 + 1 . a Spore Fate mye, 9, Great Newport Street, W.C2 -- bp the Workers Music Association), ng Ge pane ey aie ot NE aero arnt " ‘ ” Spera showld rie io the W.MA, Government with precision. instruments, Be | ¢ WOK: aniertanail ‘ce Ke Digh- cre - tar wee . Cc The Trams ran late in Amsterdam thousand people met in Amsterdam on January 5 and wnani- mously demanded that the Duvtch ‘ Government should break off diplomatic and economic relations with Franco. : Just one example of the sympathy for i- democratic Spain which is to be found i among the tch workers: Trams in Amsterdam normally cease running at 6 pm., but on the night of the “ Free Spain ” meeting the workers ran the cars . until midnight to take the people home. The meeting was called by a Com Mittee representing the ¢ unions, Socialists, Communists, Liberals and many other organisations. There were speakers of every shade of political opinion and from every sphere of cultural ee td resentative of the . Twenty t oe ee eee eS ee a shee ete then WE Lm PO 6 AS — [| was present as British International Brigade Association- ——" : and found a bonour of 150 LB. fof : ele and ax E nurses waiting to receive acral j ge British Brigaders will be partice °° S : lasiy glad to know that our old Battalion ———-——-*" ; doctor, Van well, despite -~~~-~-- 4-- years uf Concentration camps, including ! gx months in Dachau. | i The meeting was only a-beginning and sf @ nation wide cumpaiga’a st Franco 3 | is cow being condn throughout * : Holland, DLs on ' ; .: - ee SAM WILD, | > we fo, : . « i : British Aid for Franco Lo Britain bought £23,000,000 worth of 7 4 . goods from Franco Spain in 1945, ~~" 7" on _wecording to the official figures. x Six hundred and seventy-six thousand 3 worth of goods were exported Britain to Franco Spain io the last six months of 1945. The exports consisted of: machinery, £123,000; implements and tools, £11000: motor vehicles, including chassis, £18,000, chemicals, drugs, dyes and colours, £524 000. = ee ee oma 3: Britain has ply the Franco = - y : ‘excavators, navtica) and teatile equipment” “Export or die,” has been @ familiar recently. Here, however, it seems case of “We export. and the degocré ts die," 4. Te. Es si opr we yhET gt g : wa ore HR : as ~ ome ak OA a TOES me