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...piece of advice: "Two ways are open to all counterrevolutionaries : the way of death for those who resist, and the way of life for those who confess." People were told that by registering their names and stating their past misdeeds (such as having served the Nationalists), all would be forgiven...
...passages such as this a reader can realize the difference between the academic library critic, who is at odds with the whole reading world, and the commercial critic, who tries to be friends with at least part of it. For doing what he does, Prescott can be forgiven much of his public musing on his past...
...quarrel with many of their economic doctrines. He simply considers them "representatives of the Soviet Union." One of his favorite sayings is that the Communists "are not left but East." One of France's most ardent "Europeans" and a last-ditch supporter of EDC (he has never quite forgiven his new ally Mendès for letting EDC die), Mollet is also a dedicated friend of the Atlantic Alliance. "If there had been five U.S. soldiers in Europe in 1939, war would never have happened," he says...
...Socialist unions (Force Ouvriere) backed Mollet: "For us to ally with Communists would deliver the death blow to free trade unions." The Communist alliance was rejected 1,979 to 1,243. With that settled, alliance with Mendes was the next issue. Good European Guy Mollet, who has never completely forgiven Mendes for torpedoing EDC, nonetheless favored an alliance with him: "He's not one of us, but he's the best of the others." The alliance was approved overwhelmingly...
...Costa Brava 16 years after the end of Spain's civil war. Its central character is Sebastian Costa, a fisherman who was unwillingly conscripted into the Franco army and decorated for an act of bravery he did not really perform. The village Republicans, who have neither forgiven nor forgotten the war, still subject Costa to a cold, polite but unrelenting boycott. When someone betrays a Republican agent sent from France, the village instantly, and without a hearing, condemns Costa...