Word: delfa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young Russian Brigadists, interned in a filthy war-prison camp in Delfa for four years, were better informed, better read in world affairs, than American soldiers who had had access to 10,000 newspapers-which they never read...
When Loyalist Spain collapsed, the Russians, with scores of comrades in arms, escaped to France and were interned by the Blum Government. When France collapsed too, the Brigadists were shipped off to North Africa and a prison camp at Delfa, on the edge of the Sahara 150 miles south of Algiers. There, on a few crusts of bread a day, smuggled-in newspapers and secret political classes, the Brigadists kept body and ideology together. When they heard of the Allied landing on Nov. 8, they expected immediate release. Instead, an Inter-Allied Commission was set up to investigate political refugees...
...Russians Waited. Later in the winter a member of the Inter-Allied Commission visited the camp at Delfa, was shocked by the filth, the coverless straw pallets, the crusts of bread. He promptly got supplies from U.S. quartermasters. British soldiers pitched in and built a new internment camp for the Russians just outside Algiers...
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