Dollars

Under the Neutrality Act of 1937, the U. S. State Department has been able to demand that all U. S. agencies collecting and transmitting funds to Spain give strict account of their activities. Last week the Department announced that from May 1 to September 30 such agencies raised $548,765 in the U. S., spent $173,584 on administration and publicity, set aside reserves of $117,627 and sent to Spain for relief $301,001.

Nearly two-thirds of the relief actually sent to Spain was transmitted by the North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, frankly Leftist in sympathy, which sent $197,575. The American Committee for Spanish Relief, an organization whose treasurer is onetime U. S. Ambassador to Spain Ogden Haggerty Hammond, and from which Major General William Nafew Haskell withdrew saying it was not non-partisan but Rightist in his opinion, not only has sent no relief to Spain but spent $30,241 on publicity and administration while taking in only $28,635. This was attributed by Mr. Hammond chiefly to losses incurred with a Madison Square Garden pageant on May 19 which went sour. Bulk of Rightist relief came from the Brooklyn Tablet.

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