Red Terror (Spain) on 25 July, feast day of St James, patron saint of Spain. August saw a further 2,077 clerical victims. After just two months of civil war, 3400 priests, monks and nuns had been murdered. According to recent research, some of the Republican death squads were heavily staffed by members of the Soviet Union's secret police, the NKVD. According to author Donald Rayfield, "Stalin, Yezhov, and Beria distrusted Soviet participants in the Spanish war. Military advisors like Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko, journalists like Koltsov were open to infection by the heresies, especially Trotsky's, prevalent among the Republic's supporters. NKVD agents sent to Spain
The Patron of the Arts criticising Hacker, instead expressing his gratitude for such a grant at a time of "national stringency". He then proposes a toast to the Patron of the Arts, the Prime Minister. The Patron of the Arts "The Patron of the Arts" is the fourteenth episode of the BBC comedy series "Yes, Prime Minister" and was first broadcast 14 January 1988. Jim Hacker is in a quandary. Upon the recommendation of his Press Secretary, Bill Pritchard, he has accepted an invitation as guest of honour at the annual British Theatre Awards dinner. However, the size of next year's grant to the Arts