SPAIN: Grave Concern

When he reached Madrid two months ago U. S. Ambassador Claude Gernade Bowers beamingly declared that ''President Roosevelt profoundly admires the Spanish people." Taken to a bullfight, he exclaimed, "I was tremendously impressed. It evoked memories of spectacles in ancient Rome. I have never seen such color and tensity!"

Ambassador Bowers wrote a column for Hearstpapers until just before his appointment. He was advertised as "The Fighter Who Never Pulled His Punches." Last week on Spain's Island of Mallorca the live middle-class U. S. citizens (one female) who had sat in jail...

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