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Meaningless Bullets. Orwell showed what has since become clear even to U.S. liberals, that the Communists used Spain's civil war for their own purposes, worked as hard to destroy their Loyalist allies as they did to defeat Franco. But today the best of Homage to Catalonia is its crisply accurate description...
HOMAGE TO CATALONIA (232 pp.)- George Orwell - Harcourt, Brace...
...book about his experience. It was not a popular book because it was antiCommunist, and the fashion then was to cheer the Communist-controlled "Popular Front" that was running Spain. In the U.S., the book wasn't published at all. It was a pity, because Homage to Catalonia was an eye-opener. It makes fine reading even now, published here at last because Eric Blair, who died two years ago (TIME, Feb. 6, 1950) wrote under a name that has become famous: he was George (Nineteen Eighty-Four) Orwell...
...architect, sold his house and horses, put all his resources into the church-building fund. He moved into the construction yard adjoining the church, slept on a cot in a small bare room. In 1914, when all funds were exhausted, Gaudi went on a door-to-door pilgrimage through Catalonia, begged enough money to keep working. Said Gaudi philosophically: "The landlord of this building has eternity before...
...Little Misguided. Soon after he became a minister, a call came to Barcelona-to the largest Protestant church (300 members) in Catalonia. Benito went to his boss at the bar and explained why he wanted to leave. When he discovered that he had been harboring a fledgling Protestant pastor, the proprietor was horror-struck. "I am a ruined man!" he groaned.* When word got around, the president of the Parliament thundered: "Where is this man? I want to slap his face. Shame on you for having sheltered...