Mil gracias! Christmas greetings and thanks from the Basque children
Mil gracias! Christmas greetings and thanks from the Basque children We thank all the people of England, Wales and Scotland who have helped us - The Basque children in England. Six months ago you saved nearly four thousand of us from bombs and machine-gun fire and hunger. To-day in homes all over your island we are being looked after, fed, warmed, and well-treated. Some of us have been able to go home to our fathers and mothers in Bilbao now that there are no longer air-raids. Those who have been looking after us took great care to see that only those claimed by parents should go home. Many of us cannot yet have that happiness. Some of us have lost all trace of our mothers after the fall of Santander and Gijon. Others know now that our mothers and our brothers and sisters are in Catalonia, suffering from hunger and cold and illness. They cannot take us back yet. There have been some people who have made a lot of propaganda about our being here. T...