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Next morning, after the cremation, Foster's ashes were ceremonially borne to Red Square by a bevy of Communism's best, including Soviet Cosmonaut Titov. The eulogists included "La Pasionaria" of the Spanish Civil War-Dolores Ibarruri, who recalled how Foster had helped recruit the American Abraham Lincoln Brigade for the Republican army. Red China's Ambassador Liu Hsiao called Foster "the leader of the American working class," adding that "he had worked tirelessly to promote friendship between the peoples of China and the U.S.A...
...Dolores Ibarruri, called "La Pasionaria," born the daughter of a coalminer, worked as a washerwoman. She won her nickname for her fiery speeches during Spain's civil war (sample: "Women of Madrid! Do not hinder your husbands from going to war. It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a miserable coward"). She is now secretary general of what's left of the Spanish Communist Party...
...Spain's Dolores Ibarruri, La Pasionaria (now living in France), a miner's daughter and a miner's wife, whose Communism rose from the pits. She grew up amid strikes, riots, unemployment, sudden death. She has two children whom she mentioned in her fiery Civil War speeches urging Spain's women to put the cause above husbands and children ("it is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a miserable coward...
...Government was consulting with the Communists, led by Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria) of Civil War fame. It was in contact with the chief Spanish underground, of unassessable political strength, known as the National Alliance of Democratic Forces. But it considered Rightists like Gil Robles as "renegade republicans." It sneered at the monarchists-"a cabal of old women made up almost entirely of political whores and political virgins." Spanish disunity was as tragically great as ever...
Hysteria from Moscow. Wanted as badly by the Spanish Government as Laval was wanted by France was a commuter who stepped off a plane in Paris last week. Plain, plump Dolores Ibarruri, 50, better known as La Pasionaria ("The Passion Flower") and Republican Spain's most uninhibited orator, was returning from Moscow for the first time since 1939. In Moscow she had been a member of the executive committee of the Communist International and heroine of a Soviet play, Salud España, which closed there because the leading lady "could only make Dolores interesting by making her hysterical...