“…England is tenacious and its hold is not soft when it is a question of British economic interests. The great imperial history of England is made up of hundreds of similar stories, the brutality and injustice of which are accepted by the British conscience, provided they bear the seal of London. …”

“…1939-06-20 012b-0027-004 -3- vigorously encouraged and sustained by British propaganda, had brought about in Biscay a curious united front against Madrid, in which, paradoxically enough, socialists and communists of the working class centres of Biscay stood cheek by jowl with the so-called nationalist millionaires of Bilbao and important groups of Biscayan clergy. The economic platform of Basque separatism was a strange privilege known as "economic harmony" granted one hundred years ago to Biscay during the first Carlist War. …”

“…Important political significance, both from the nationalist point of view in Spain and the international point of view, attaches to the present stay of Franco in Bilbao, in Biscay, the ex-spiritual and economic centre of Basque separatism. Bilbao was in fact the moral capital of Basque separatism. …”

“…Through these ceremonies, full of traditionalist significance and revolutionary purport, which carry in procession the ancient Madonnas against a background of shipyards and blast furnaces, Franco, who knows the soul of Spain, is laying with serene wisdom the great sentimental, spiritual and economic bases of his policy of reconstruction. Franco spoke clearly to the business men and workers of Bilbao. …”