"Daily Scandal"

Bishop Angel Herrera of Malaga is one of the few men unafraid to speak out in Franco's Spain. Last week in a pastoral letter published in Madrid's Catholic daily Ya, the bishop said: "There is in the conscience of Spain a great lack . . . We have created a type of Christianity poor in social virtues. The lack of justice and, to a great extent, of mercy, maintains a system of sharing the national wealth which gives to a minority the great bulk of our income and keeps the multitude in poverty.

"Our upper classes ... do not realize the daily scandal which they present to the nation. They do not have the remotest idea of the atmosphere which their insensitive conduct foments in factories, in the fields, in the university and in professional circles." The bishop may have had in mind the secret government poll taken recently at the University of Madrid, which showed 60% of the students against the regime (TIME, Jan. 16).

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