Word: coping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cope v. Franco...
...recent struggle in Spain has harrowed us enough with Franco's cynical cruelties, aided by the Berlin-Rome Axis, against helpless noncombatants. But what could be more depraved than that now charged by Mr. Alfred Cope [TIME, June 19], administrator of the American Friends Service Committee, against General Franco? Mr. Cope says that six or seven shiploads of food intended for the starving children who are victims of the Totalitarian blockade of Loyalist Spain, were deliberately diverted by Franco to feed his army...
More serious and more detailed were Mr. Cope's charges that the Franco regime had seized six or seven shiploads of food that the Quakers sent to Spain for 100,000 half-starved children. As far as he could find out, the food went to the Army. In Murcia, he said, he turned over to the Spanish Social Auxiliary, the official Spanish relief organization, enough food to last the 1,000 children they were feeding there a month and three days. It was all gone in ten days...
...While the food lasted, moreover, the official orders in the clinic were that the children had to sing the Franco Nationalist songs before they were fed," said Mr. Cope. "We never asked them to sing Loyalist songs when the Loyalists held that territory, and we do not now like to ask them to sing Nationalist songs in thanksgiving for our food...
Upshot of the difficulties in Spain, Mr. Cope announced, was that the Quakers were pulling out. "It would simply be dishonest to continue in Spain to spend the money being collected abroad for this children's relief," he said. "Franco has assured us he would like to have us continue the work until we are ready to retire, but it is evident that he wants the food, not us. There is no way of being sure where the food is likely...