PHILIP OF SPAIN.
Sir,-In reading as usual your thoughtful editorial "Hitler’s Last Words," I was surprised at the incongruous association of Philip of Spain with Attila. The latter, a squat and swarthy Hun, brought the horrors of Asiatic invasion upon Christendom. Philip, by his labours, his seamen, his ships, and his money, largely contributed to repel a like invasion at the Battle of Lepanto. To point the incongruity, Philip was tall with a golden beard and of partly English descent (House of Lancaster): I thought Professor Walsh’s recent scholarly biography had dispelled the unhistorical myth of the. "spider of the Escorial" and that well-read men knew that, though an enemy of England, Philip lived a life worthy in many respects of emulation and in dying showed a nobility by no means unworthy of an English king or of his heroic age.
VINCENT
COUNTY
(Eastbourne).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 296, 23 February 1945, Page 5
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