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...political grave. It keeps haunting memories, arguments, books and loyalty files. For countless Americans now over 35, it was the first great meeting with history, the first passionate political love affair-or hate binge. Scores of keen-eyed witnesses, including Britain's late George Orwell in Homage to Catalonia (TIME, May 19, 1952), have shown that the war was not a simple melodrama of Franco vice v. Loyalist virtue, but a far more complex tragedy in which the Loyalist side itself fought a kind of civil war within a civil war, being first championed and then betrayed...
...Catalan is indeed a separate language, spoken by 4,300,000 people in the Balearic Islands, Valencia, and Spanish Catalonia, as well as in Andorra. Expatriate Catalans are so proud of their native tongue and literature that they still give prizes for literary and poetic contests, called Joes Florals de la Llengua Catalana...
...informer ... the sages of the Talmud compared the moser to a serpent.... The great Talmudist of Lucena, Joseph ibn Migas, caused an informer to be stoned before the close of a certain Day of Atonement which fell on a Sabbath... In the staintes signed by the communities of Catalonia and Valencia September 25, 1354, the extermination of informers was made a public duty, in the accomplishment of which everyone was required to render his utmost assistance... [And later] when one was convicted of informing, he was branded on the forehead with a red not iron.... In Posen a Jewish informer...
...Alexander Weissberg's The Accused, one of the best accounts yet of what happened to victims of the Kremlin purge in 1937. And those who still doubted the Communists' double-dealing in the Spanish Civil War could read George (Nineteen Eighty-Four) Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, posthumously published in the U.S., one of the best books yet written about that tragic episode...
Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell. The Spanish Civil War as seen by the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four (TIME...