"Poor Spain! So long a great country and a faithful friend of Ireland, now torn and bleeding and fighting for her Christian life. There is no room any longer for any doubt as to the issues at stake in the Spanish conflict. It is not a question of the army against the people, nor of the aristocracy plus the army and the church against labour. Not at all. It is a question of whether Spain will remain as she has been so long, a Christian and a Catholic land, or a Bolshevist and anti-God land."
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Joseph MacRory, speech in Drogheda (September 1936), quoted in Ronan Fanning, Independent Ireland (1983), p. 132
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