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Newsstand Distribution by EasternnNews Distributors, Inc., 1130 Cleveland Road,nSandusky, OH 44870.nCopyright © 1989 by The Rockford Institute.nAll rights reserved.nCHRONICLES (ISSN 0887-5731) is publishednmonthly for $21 per year by The RockfordnInstitute, 934 North Main Street, Rockford, ILn61103-7061.nSecond-class postage paid at Rockford, IL andnadditional mailing offices.nPOSTMASTER: Send address changes tonCHRONICLES, P.O. Box 800, Mount Morris,nIL 61054nThe views expressed in Chronicles are thenauthors’ alone and do not necessarily reflect thenviews of The Rockford Institute or of itsndirectors.nChroniclesnA MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN CULTUREn4/CHRONICLESnVol 13, No. 5 March 1989nPOLEMICS & EXCHANGESnOn ‘Caudillonand Generalissimo’nProfessor Lee Congdon merits applausenfor a thoughtful review of two books onnFrancisco Franco (October 1988). Inmight raise the point of a number ofnsignificant omissions, but this would benunfair. I do, however, take exception tonone commission, namely the assertionnthat Federico Garcia Lorca was shot bynthe Nationalists in 1936.nThis was the propaganda claim of thenLoyalists in the early days of the SpanishnCivil War, but it has never been substantiatednin any way. In point of fact, allnthe evidence adduced to date points innthe direction of a murder by a gang ofntoughs led by personal enemies of GarcianLorca. In the early days of thenNationalist uprising, there were manyninstances of this kind of nonpoliticalnkilling on both sides.nIn Loyalist Madrid, a gang broke intonthe home of a distant cousin of mynfather, slaughtering him, his wife andnchildren, and even his servants. Thencousin was a physician and totally apolitical.nIt should be added in any commentnon Francisco Franco that he saved farnmore Jewish lives than any of the leadersnof the West by restoring Spanish citizenshipnto the descendants of thosendriven out by the Inquisition, therebynallowing those in Central Europe tonescape the death camps and take theirnproperty with them.n— RalpJi de ToledanonWashington, DCnOn ‘Letter Fromnthe Heartland’nI would like to express how much 1nenjoy reading Chronicles, and particularlynthe “Letter From the Heartland”nthat Jane Greer writes.nBut “Eastern Montana: a giganticnplate of congealed gravy”? Harshnwords from Greer (December 1988),none of the unfortunate residents ofnNorth Dakota—the state where theninterstate curves so that a driver won’tnfall asleep crossing the state’s widenopen sameness.nnnSome of the sights that the Greernfamily appear to have missed in theirnfrenzy to get to and from the mountains:n— Ft. Peck Dam, the world’s largestnearth-filled dam.n— Museum of the Plains Indian.n— CM. Russell Museum, the studionand art of the greatest cowboy artist.n— Makoshika State Park, with thenbeauty of the badlands in eastern Montana.n— Three separate Indian reservations,na chance to see socialism and your taxndollars at work.n— The missile silos of central Montanan(it is difficult not to noticenMontana’s contribution to national defense).n— The beauty of eastern Montana,nwith its wide open spaces. The sense ofnindividuality and humbleness in thenface of such an immense and underpopulatednarea should at least touch ansmall part of the visitor who comesnhere with both eyes and mind open.nAnd in retaliation for the sheep joke,ndid you hear that North Dakota hasnbought five thousand septic tanks? Asnsoon as they learn to drive them they’rengoing to invade Montana.n—Brent RichlennMiles City, MTnOn ‘Millionsnof Fathers’nThe comments in your December issuenabout the anomaly of the laws, asnnow constituted, that affirm both thenwoman’s sole right to decide on abortionnand the father’s duty to financiallynsupport the child once born were verynwell taken.nThe fact is that abortion is alwaysnjustified on the basis of the tacit assumptionnthat the issue is one of pregnancynonly. Since the only one affectednby the condition of pregnancy is thenwoman —so the argument goes — shenshould be the only one to decidenwhether she wishes to continue beingnpregnant. The way this is expressed inna slogan is, “A woman has the right toncontrol her own body.” However, tonassume that the main issue is pregnan-n