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...fewer than 10% had automatic weapons. The village commander at Baralow carries a bolt-action deer rifle. When asked how they could fight a modern army, several of the bearded elders in his 160-man force brandished curved swords. They make the most of what is available. Broken donkey harnesses are restitched into Sam Browne belts...
...three foreign correspondents during the Spanish Civil War, quickly learning the arts of duplicitous reporting. Then he stumbles onto a small fortune in bank notes that have been salvaged from bombed Guernica. Postponing his career in intelligence, he meanders around Spain for most of a year on a donkey named Fred-after Astaire because of its jug ears-and later holes up in Madrid for two years until the cash runs out. It is then that he goes to work for the Abwehr. The Germans like Luis mainly because he speaks English volubly and can make change from...
...squatting on the sidewalks heating food or water in tin cans over a wood fire. Others, many in rags, were pecking about in the gutted interiors of houses. Everyone seemed to be completely aimless, moving with no sense of purpose. The only sign of transportation we saw was two donkey carts...
...donkey's silent writhing drives Rosa from her country. The beating captures in one unbearable moment the essence of South Africa for Rosa Burger--her implication as a white in blacks' suffering. As a white spectator, she is powerless to stop the donkey's suffering or those of the blacks in her country...
...last by me, the white woman--the final meaning of a day they had lived I had no knowledge of, a day of other appalling things, violence, disasters, urgencies, deprivations which suddenly would become, was nothing but what it had led up to: the man among them beating their donkey. I could have put a stop to it, the misery; at that point I witnessed. What more...