Circular

              PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE FOR SPAIN
Richard Acland, M.P.
The Duchess of Atholl, M.P.
Aneurin Bevan, M.P.
David Grenfell, M.P.
Megan Lloyd-George, M.P.
Philip Noel-Baker, M.P.
D. N. Pritt, K.C., M.P.
Eleanor Rathbone, M.P.
S. Silverman, M.P.
G.R. Strauss, M.P.
Edith Summerskill, M.P.
Ellen Wilkinson, M.P.
H. Graham White, M.P.
Hon. Secretaries:
JOHN JAGGER, M.P.
WILFRID ROBERTS, M.P.
All communications should be addressed to the Organising Secretary:
11a Bloomsbury Way,
London, W.C.1.
Telephone: CHAncery 8487.
Dear Sir or Madam,
"The Republican Government is as determined as ever to fight on for a Government of the people, by the people. It is dictatorship versus democracy, two incompatibles."
THE TIMES, July 16th, 1938
(The anniversary of the rebellion).
The champions of General Franco continually proclaim that the victory of the insurgents is imminent. Many people in this country, however, know that the passionate desire of the Spanish people for Liberty, for which they have fought so courageously against ever-increasing intervention, is a force that cannot be extinguished, and that the end of the war is not yet. But the coming winter is going to be a critical period - critical for the Spanish army, if the insurgents continue to receive unlimited aid from foreign powers, critical for the civilians in the rear, where the food shortage is getting acute, and critical for the preservation of the peace of the world. It is essential that supporters of Spanish democracy in this country and abroad should exert themselves to the utmost on behalf of humanity and freedom, the sanctity of international obligations and of Peace itself.
Propaganda no less than the bombing aeroplane and the blockade is a method of modern warfare. The friends of General Franco in this country are noticeably increasing their campaign on his behalf, by letters to the press, by the circulation of literature and by public meetings. Tendentious and incorrect statements pass unanswered.
Many of us have felt for some time that the wealth of accurate information which now exists in books and in the personal experience of reliable witnesses, is failing to reach as wide a public as it should. It is with the primary object of letting the public know the facts, that a PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE has recently been formed,