“ Andrea De Onís of Salamanca said the disease had spread over Spain and brought business to a standstill in many cities.
George Colay, a French merchant living in Barcelona, said that only a small minority of the people in Spain were in favor of the Germans in the war. "Spain wants to be neutral," he declared, "and become rich by manufacturing munitions for the Allies. Spanish business men are satisfied that the United States did not enter the war as an aggressor, and had only the loftiest aims." ”