THE INTERVIEW DR. WARD: Since there are many misunderstandings in our coun- tries, we shall ask some questions which may seem to you self-evident, but which none the less are needed....First, your new cabinet, established a few days ago, with Caballero at its head,---is it a "red government," or a "people's government"? There were strong movements of dissent to the term "red government," a scornful shrug from La Passionaria, and finally an answer phrased by DOMINGO: As president of the Left Republican Party I think very highly of Caballero's cabinet, which like all those preceding it since February 16, 1936. is a People's Front Government. Its significance is neither socialist nor communist, but democratic. It contains for the first time socialists and communists, as well as re- publicans, because it was necessary in the interests of strengthening our defense that all those parties which are contributing strength to fight for the Republic should take part in its deliberation.... The parties of the People's Front form an indivisible whole, with but one present aim: to save the Republic and our republican laws. Program of People's Front DR. WARD: What is the program of the People's Front and what have they done for the people? VARIOUS MEMBERS: The agrarian reform, giving the peasants a chance to secure land... Many reforms in justice and legal procedure, making justice speedier and simpler for the people. The school reform ... We re-established the social legislation of the first government of the Republic in 1931, which was sabotaged by the reaction- aries during the past four years ... Catalonia was given autonomy ... And the Basques ... autonomy began to be drafted for them also ... Laws reduced the excessive land-rents ... The law of separation between church and state, which had been passed by the Republic, then corrupted and sabotaged by the reactionaries in 1932-35, was again enforced; the schools were freed from church domination ... Small traders and proprietors were protected ... Above all, there was amnesty for political prisoners. They were freed, to the number of thousands ... MR. MacLEOD: What was this law of rents? LA PASSIONARIA, with vehement gesture: the landlords made it very high, the government made it very low ...