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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...
...certain real stake" in the magazine's wellbeing. Recently, Greenberg decided that the weekly's well-being was not being furthered by its foreign policy and its foreign editor, J. Alvarez del Vayo, veteran journalist and for a time (21 months) foreign minister in Spain's Loyalist government. To the Nation's editors, Greenberg sent a 1,200-word letter charging that Del Vayo's column "invariably parallels that of Soviet propaganda." Editor-Publisher Freda Kirchwey refused to print the letter. Her explanation: "It's absurd, defamatory and libelous...
Barea, a non-Communist Loyalist who fled to England when Franco won the Civil War, writes of a non-Communist Loyalist's return to Madrid from England in 1949. Don Antolin Moreno bad abandoned his wife, two sons, and daughter in fleeing for his life. Armed with British naturalization papers and passport, he dares return to try to take charge of his family and to discharge his responsibilities...
...loyalist tendencies caused him to floe the Colonies in 1776 and stay in England for the rest of his life...
Died. Marquis Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, 76, a general under Franco in Spain's 1936-39 civil war; after long illness; near Seville. The marquis was famed for only one military feat: outfoxing superior Loyalist forces in Seville, and easily taking the city. Mostly, he fought the war-and won his reputation-with nightly propaganda broadcasts ("The common people are swine . . . Spain must again be made a country fit for caballeros to live...