And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.
No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.
Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood.
At times in the past, the U.S. did not restrict the number of immigrants.
When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?
If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.
Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.
In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.
Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.
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