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loyalist Spain, and the other was a nurse. The Tampa Ministerial Alliance is going to co-sponsor the meeting with us; it will be the first time in this country that a ministerial alliance has done that. And for the first time we will get the Americans in Tampa to our meetings."
"Ginesta just returned from Washington a few weeks ago," explains the other man. "In a few days he is going back to Washington again to attend as a delegate to the Congress for Peace and Democracy."
"Yes, I learn plenty in Washington," Ginesta says. "I went with a delegation to ask Congressmen to lift the embargo on Spain. Man, we got a good friend in Claude Peoper; Pepper, he is a good guy. There was anothe rCongressman who told to us; 'You are from Florida and not my constitutents, but in your request you represent the majority of the American people, and so do I.' That sure make us feel good.
"There was another Congressman who said: 'Yes, I will vote to lift the embargo on Spain this time.--But listen, I want you to understand that it is not I who have changed my views since I voted against lifting the embargo last year. It is the situation that has changed.' You see, he didn't want us to say that we were right and he was wrong, or that he had swung around to our point of view. Munich, the Lima Conference, and President Roosevelt's speeches sure are waking a lot of people up.