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Recently there was published in England a pamphlet called. "Authors take Sides on the Spanish War." Its contributors included Bernard Shaw. H. G. Wells. Aldous Huxley, Havelock Ellis, Ezra Pound, T. S. Ellot. Rebecca West, Liam O'Flaherty, Eric Linklater, Rose Macaulay and 138 other leading authors.

Following is an extract from a review of the pamphlet by the Editor of the Catholic Herald.

"It makes the saddest reading of my life. I cannot understand the crass ignorance, the stinking conceit, the childish reasoning of men and women who believe themselves to be leaders of British thought. With few honourable exceptions . . . our peots, artists and writers descend to crude abuse of Franco that would shame a guttersnipe's manners and intellect. I doubt whether ever before in the culture of a great nation has its intelligentsia sunk to a lower level of mental degradation and blind rage . . . If ever I had any doubt that Franco's cause was essentially noble and civilisation-saving the reading of this miserable exhibition of intellectual and emotional cretinism would confirm my faith."