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Senor Preteceille: "In five years of the Republic, more new schools
have been built in Spain than during a century of the monarchy. Even
though the war has been constantly intensifying, the number of schools
in Loyalist Spain was doubled during the past year."

"One hundred—per-cent of the poets of Spain are Loyalists. Almost as
large a proportion of musicians, artists, authors and scientists are
on the Loyalists side."

Senora Meana: "The women of Spain cannot be beaten. They have too
much to lose to allow Fascism to prevail. Franco cannot win."

JOY BY ORDER

In San Sebastian, a town recently seized by the rebels, a number of
citizens have been fined for not properly carrying out the orders of the Fascist
Town Council regarding "manifestations of the joy and enthusiasm aroused in all
by the exploits of our Glorious Army on the Teruel front." As showing the
reason for such joy and enthusiams, two Catalans in the same town were fined
for conversing in their own dialect in a local dining room.

PERSONAL NOTES

Right Rev. Peter Bryce, M.D., Moderator of the United Church of Canada,
regretting his inability to be present at the Massey Hall meeting addressed by
the Spanish Delegates owing to a previous engagement writes:

"Let me wish you continued succes in the gracious work you are doing
for the war orphans and refugee children of Spain."

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In Toronto there seems to be no lessening of interest in the Committee's
film, "The heart of Spain." Since the last regular bulletin was issued it has
been shown to:

Croatian-Servian Womens' Section
Meeting at Central Technical School,
Finnish Social Club,
Meeting at Holy Trinity Parish Hall,
Meeting at Prospect Park United Church,
Canadian Electrical Trade Unions,
Millinery Workers‘ Union,
Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Union,
Carlton C.C.F. Club,

and a number of further showings have been arranged for the immediate future.
Most of these meetings were addressed by either Rev. Ben. Spence or Mr. J. Conner.

From March 14th to 25th, Mr. Harry Farmer showed the film.at the following
points in Eastern Ontario:

Napanee, Town Hall,
Desoronto, White Hall,
Kingston, United Church,
Cornwall, Labor Temple,
Canonoque, Oddfellows' Hall,
Carleton Place, United Church,
Perth, Town Hall,
Smith's Falls, Orange Hall.

Those who wish to keep thoroughly familiar with developments in Spain
would be well to read the April 1938 issue of “The Fight", published in New
York by the American League for Peace and Democracy. The issue is plentifully
illustrated with photographic reproductions, and contains a series of illuminat-
ing articles on the various aspects of the war.