"Report on Spain."

Bates describes Franco's Spain as impoverished, graft-ridden, and feudal, and its people sunk in illiteracy and prostitution.

Letters from readers printed a month later called his article prejudiced and unbalanced, and Bates responded briefly in "H.E. Bates Answers Back."

With numerous photographs.

In Illustrated (July 22, 1950, pp. 9-13, 35, attached).