These facts the American press also largely suppressed, preferring to call Hitler’s and Mussolini's collaborator Franco a nationalist,' asserts [George] Seldes.
Amanda Hopkinson (Independent) reviewed Preston's book: "Described as a 'Conservative democrat of the old school, who had become a staunch defender of the new Republic', Fernsworth was grey-haired, wore a pince-nez and, a devout Roman Catholic, contributed to the Jesuit weekly America.
Yet rather than lurid, unsubstantiated tales of torched churches and raped nuns, he wrote a careful account of the plight of fleeing refugees from Almería for The Times.
'It is resolved: We appeal to the statesmen and the leaders of public opinion to refrain from words and actions that are designed to inflame enmity and hatred.'
'Elimination and prohibition of atom and hydrogen bombs and other weapons of mass destruction, and the insistence that nations carry, on tests only within their respective territories or, if elsewhere, only by international clearance and agreement.'
[16] In a news conference on April 25, 1956, Fernsworth, reporting for the Concord Monitor, asked President Eisenhower to speak about "charges that a Columbia University professor, Jesus Galindez, was assassinated by agents of the Trujillo dictatorship."