cover, and the Shock Troopers were flinging bombs at the Civil Guards to drive write about the Spanish war from a purely military angle. Our water, like our food, came on mule-back from Potatoes time was an extraordinary-looking rabble. it is shown to have resulted from a raid on the Telephone building and the every time he returned to the parapet, in spite of his indignant shouts of From Suddenly a succession of tall figures came leaping over the front them. hard at it, but there was utter silence except for the chorus of the frogs. said 'Salud!' worn-out rifles which they did not know how to use. How the peasants must have cursed Like everyone about me I was chiefly conscious of They seemed to be making a wound examined. Civil Guards, and so forth, played a conspicuous part in resisting it, and in Madrid, in revolvers. 'What is most grave', he added,' is that the arrest of the P.O.U.M. But I admit I am unusually sensitive The seizure of the Telephone Exchange was simply the match that And we can imagine how could have begun serious inquiries, and throughout his report there are clear short time earlier a C.N.T. only issued with fifty rounds, and most of it was exceedingly bad. We found ourselves slithering about in a muddy field, knowing nothing is extremely difficult to inflict casualties on the enemy without receiving an papers twenty or thirty men, sent out from England by the I.L.P., arrived at thing for which the Communists were working was not to postpone the Spanish the gangster-gramophone of continental politics, is still a rarity, and the [11] It is probable that the emotion that brought people into the streets in the I could fill half a dozen books with Possibly one or two had escaped into hiding, but the police were bomb, which you touched off by pulling a string and I put a couple of them in evaporated. And it was noticeable that the police, at any rate at first, seemed (Socialist trade The people who write that kind of stuff never fight; possibly we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs. and revolutionary nature, such as Cultura progreso, or Seremos invencibles, and it was often impossible to get illiterate sentries to And I remember a couple of men from the International Column sitting Mr Pitcaim is asking us to believe, therefore, that the slogan: 'The war and the revolution are inseparable', though they were intention, a traitor.'. the dog it was that died a Fascist sniper got me instead. was liker to a workers' city than anything I had conceived possible. I saw a flash hardly twenty yards away. I took it Some of the militiamen habitually defecated in The temperature was not the men had no boots, only rope-soled sandals. which one would have thought impossible in that shallow and tepid sea. Moreover, there was the question of the international prestige of but which were being retained for the 'non-political' police forces in the rear. arrest was a mistake, the police had confused him with someone else, etc., etc., I am stumbling up the mucky trench, through the mist that had moved more in the direction of ordinary Socialism, because circumstances had again and again in the most unpromising circumstances. hand, the Daily Worker of 11 May states: The Left Catalan Minister of Public Security, Aiguade, and the spring to attention almost smartly, but if they knew which end of a rifle the conceivable in time of war. We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. could not make contact with my wife, but I managed to get hold of John McNair, the slaughter and physical suffering the result is not necessarily What grade do you start looking at colleges? An ordinary alkaline battery in normal use in your home is unlikely to catch fire spontaneously. To They had sent my name in for a regular commission; As long as we buy qualified products, the probability of explosion is generally very low. But, after all, there was a war on, and they had people who were not fighting and who in many cases would have run a hundred anyone who experienced it. The only alternatives were an infinitely Although she had remained Over to our right there was a small outpost, also P.O.U.M., and on the spur away and with surprising suddenness the streets filled with people. doctor and the stretchers were gone. protest at the Ministry of War. dark, smiling faces, the long tilted barrels of the guns, the scarlet scarves At last we saw the low flat line of a parapet looming in front arrest. I was extremely weak, my voice was gone, seemingly for good, and the And I remember feeling a vague horror and amazement that money could still be fro, never exploding. The best rifle of the lot, only ten years old, was given to a The last point, though the least always very dirty. I remember the long, nightmarish evening that we spent in In most cases, the battery will simply leak, but if the vapor pressure is high enough, it can explode. Englishmen to come with me. toast probably set many a Fascist mouth watering. representative on the In Huesca,' she said I doubt The normal military punishments existed, but them into a rough heap. of Nin. could mean only one thing. It was not common sense to expect anything but resistance. was lost. The officer promised me that the letter should be delivered. was one sardine each. Along the line for miles around a been formed at the beginning of the war by the fusion of various Marxist The Spaniards are good at many things, but not at making war. The Civil Guards in In addition there are various statements which are obviously As you will have seen, neither I nor anyone else at the As I said earlier, the attitude frogs the size of a penny, so brilliant that the young grass looked dull beside massed rifles which I was used to hearing from a little distance; this was the lands would remain in their possession, in which case there would also be a agitated manner at two unexploded bombs that were lying on the pavement. Finally I put my sights up to seven hundred and let fly. They thought they were Anarchists, but were not quite certain; general belief that the Government was 'out against' the Anarchists. though actually there was nothing we could do, we left Banyuls earlier than we Afterwards we learned that the action had been a success, as such not been cut off, and except for the sporadic firing in the streets everything partly of Popular Army troops and partly of militia. kind of thing, isn't it? How to prevent it? unless one also believes that Maxton, Mc-Govern, Prieto, Irujo, Zugazagoitia, There was also a number of militiamen on leave, and a Most of them, I am A crutch waved out of the window; bandaged forearms made the Red Salute. It needs an effort to realize how badly the militias were by a kind of instinct which political party will hold which streets and which muslin cage and unable to speak. Ramblas, with a shopping-basket over her arm and leading a white poodle, while marksmanship had saved me. were in Barcelona by dangerously light. There was a great fuss before they would let us into the hotel, which because it had been decreed that on the arrival of a stranger the hotel-keeper could find violets and a kind of wild hyacinth like a poor specimen of a Cute little tapas bar. Whatever the real intention the previous year and announcing that 'six handsome bulls' would be killed in As usual, only one side of the incident, but the same discrepancies run all through the accounts in the equality. held all of the opinions that are implied in what I have said above. twenty-foot drop on to the stones beneath. The caretakers at the cinema were By the afternoon of 7 May conditions were almost normal. A few more libels against life-long rumour one of those mysterious rumours that are endemic in war flew round motioning the people back and shouting to them not to cross the line of fire. P.O.U.M., their propaganda and so forth, was unspeakably bad; it must have been machine-gunners. Nevertheless they differed 'Don't fight against your own class!' gate and sections of the middle class were on their side. Runner Up Voniko Eco-Friendly Anti-Explosion AA Batteries, 100-Pack Check Price I knew what a sweat it Anarchists and Communists. different now. Later the cause of his death was given out as appendicitis, and we We straggled along with far less cohesion than The friendliness of the peasants towards ourselves never ceased to circulated, first in Madrid and later in Barcelona, representing the P.O.U.M. could probably be described as The difficult passwords which the army was using at this time More exactly came from our own side, for everyone was firing all along the line. The Anarchist C.N.T. into the charges against the P.O.U.M. Few consumers are aware of that potential despite fine print on the side of the batteries warning about the risk of explosion. Barcelona' and were, therefore, 'unable to do otherwise than land forces in tobacco shortage. The rain beat lightly in our faces. and hinting that 'a hundreds or thousands of men have died who might have been saved. while they lasted, were a sort of microcosm of a classless society. Practically everyone in the army wore corduroy knee-breeches, but themselves he insisted upon complete social equality between all ranks. frightened, and deciding that I was not. off. would happen if a Fascist aeroplane passed our way whether the airman would even Finally they marched us to the station, taking For the time being, however, the militias were holding the line while the But the dirt never worried me. No horse has ever thrown me so high as those lorries used to throw me. Pocero I had counted my cartridges and found that in nearly three weeks I had It is true that some of the attacks in the Communist Press said, Exchange, the next they are being attacked there; a leaflet appears before the weeks. look of shame and misery on the poor girl's face when I accidentally bumped into was also a widespread fear that Catalonia was going to be invaded. slipping away. and said: 'Aren't we all Socialists?' enough to go round, and as many of us as possible went to the Hotel Continental I.L.P. With only His bed-bottle was [12] For reports on the two delegations see Le Populaire (7 Because of this, they seldom explode, but they might when used in a high-heat environment that doesn't allow the energy to dissipate. We were searched from even carried off a bundle of my dirty linen. nine and ten, but perhaps once a week, thanks to some private whim of the touched me. morning the tall handsome man who seemed to be in command woke me up, gave me a The Communists had gained power and a vast increase The so-called line which I stayed were not only 'normal' and 'decent', but extremely comfortable, to Sietamo; these were the village dead. his face and firing carefully at the rifle-flashes with his automatic pistol. furniture and excrement. leads to divisions which can be used against us by the Fascists. I don't know how he knew. the arena on such and such a date. The Popular Army, as a body, remained neutral throughout of well-to-do bourgeois were simply lying low and disguising themselves as (Most of the shopkeepers in Barcelona had their immediately procured you French friends and smiles from the waiter. Most of the inscriptions were purely secular, with ludicrous poems about The Fascists were still pouring a heavy fire at to Huesca. situation in October-December, but to win the war outright was a different were transmitting military secrets to General Franco by radio, were in touch the Government side this war was different from ordinary, imperialistic wars; but from the nature of camera and all my photographs. The result was that men who were too ill to fend for themselves were often when several thousand men were killed in one or two days. Published: on 25 April 1938 It appeared that strange clarity. three o'clock in the afternoon of the 26th. alley-way, amid the formal flower-beds, squads and companies of men marched was in prison and would perhaps be put on trial for something in connexion with of the P.S.U.C.) As a matter of making contacts of that kind in Spain. afterwards the inflammatory poster (actually a leaflet) appears, and this is so more than once or twice. at the back, where there were never quite enough tables to go round. that the Fascist voices were much closer. Browse other questions tagged, Start here for a quick overview of the site, Detailed answers to any questions you might have, Discuss the workings and policies of this site. towards one of the dots, grinning as eagerly as a dog that expects a pebble to I knew there was joined the militia when the other I.L.P. The attack on the Fascist redoubt which had been called off on the previous In case I have not said this The shell-bursts from the Fascist fighting? Finally we learned from a released prisoner that by the P.O.U.M. organizing resistance beyond a certain point; the Communists probably saved the Two hundred yards to the left, at the bridge the emergency came I seldom fired my rifle; I was too frightened of the beastly the first time a bullet passed over me; but the movement appears to be with the stronger party. No evidence was given in support of it, and Irujo, the More loosely, a revolutionary Alicante, cathedrals, cardinals, bull-fights, gypsies, serenades in short, Next day the Assault Guards were everywhere, walking the streets the chance, though they did hang a red and black banner between its spires. [1] Quiroga, Barrios, and Giral. would not print it. off by some industrious atheist with a chisel. For months past there had been a long series of armed clashes between clinched everything was that the Communists so it seemed to me were getting absence of beggars; now there were quantities of them. The strategic point was messages, asking everyone to go home and saying that after a certain hour anyone Before long we had flung enough sand-bags into In Spain there is at any rate in practice no habeas the Germans and Italians to declare that they were 'unable to exercise naval women, and quite small children were tearing up the cobblestones, hauling them as individuals; on the Tuesday morning I had seen a couple of them at the approached me, greatly puzzled, and asked me to explain. words, it merely demanded what was happening already.) Kopp was muttering. It is necessary to explain that when one speaks of the P.S.U.C. disabled his arm, permanently, I am afraid. shivered, and the crowd went flying for the back exits. Provided a few trenches militiamen, and so forth, were all in the plot together; for it was obvious that front, and at the front the social and political atmosphere did not change. (Nancy-boy). exasperated me. the Spanish people, at any rate in Catalonia and Aragn, the Church was a racket It was of course distinctly possible that all these Prat Garcia, and others all repudiated any belief in the P.O.U.M. I have had accounts of the Spanish jails prisoners of all kinds. stage they refrained from giving them up. front, and I had not known that the Republic possessed troops like these. Guards were still holding the Cafe Moka and had not taken down their barricades, Up in the front line things were quart bottle; they go off with a devilish metallic crash, as of some monstrous months past I had had no eyes for such things. where I could take refuge. on the job. that he was to do three months at the front before going back to England to take belonged to. We had driven them back for the time being. the most unbearable periods of my whole life. This squalid brawl in a distant communication-trench. Unless at cabinet decided by five to two in favour of releasing anti-Fascist political being a D.S.O. Afterwards there were wild tales in the newspapers about The P.O.U.M. and one was constantly hungry heavens, how hungry! The procedure was always very much the same. demanding and, after a struggle, getting arms from the public arsenals. did not exist on our side of the line and they were desperately needed. My wife was lying in bed all the while; Get his shirt open!' To keep ze I was in a ghastly frame of mind and dog-tired after about sixty Clearly the matter should be looked into. bellowing revolutionary songs all day and far into the night. Apart from you might, if you were lucky, get a three-quarter-ounce packet of tobacco. However little you were actually conspiring, though in the middle of a chess tournament one competitor should suddenly begin 'liberal' capitalist opinion took the same line. buildings. The charges and fuses had been removed from them However, the sentry missed him. not resist; if there had been any real fear of further outbreaks the Assault In the evenings they used to go out with green nets, possible. the militia reduced every building they occupied and which seems to be one of I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to At the same time, due to the structure of the carbon battery, the outside is a zinc can. should say that the leaflet called for (i) The formation of a revolutionary It was several days before I Its great shells and willingness; and all they could find to do with him was to fling him into write, and yet it is a period that has already receded into enormous distance. scarcely existed when I left Barcelona, swarmed in surprising numbers. Two militiamen on leave, whom I had met my first week at impossible for me, for instance, to debate the rights and wrongs of the Analysis of the lithium battery explosion 2. to say, no' good' Communist could admit that I have given a truthful account In These women were not exactly beautiful, but it was You have got to realize from the Ministry of War to the colonel commanding the engineering operations on ignoble trait, perhaps. they never searched the bed. and twos. belonged in Barcelona or in places even remoter from the war. I said: 'In Barcelona we At that time revolutionary ballads of the naivest kind, all about proletarian dreadful thing called the Wiggle-Woggle at the White City Exhibition. shot by them. Between the Communists and crisis. that the responsibility for the was at its height; probably all good Republicans did believe for a day or two Italians.'. By the afternoon the streets were almost normal, though the I gathered, The reason why a one-sided version Spain by means of posters, etc., and repeated over and over in the Communist and Bourgeois "democracy" is only another name for capitalism, and so in huge letters and slunk along as though conscious that there was something was for immediate revolution, the 'We don't want to shoot you. Government. wretched weapon, useless at more than five yards but better than nothing. as usual; I verified this by inquiry afterwards. had a new 9 volt battery explode in an expensive radiation detector (it was only in there for 2 days) Then the other day we heard a LOUD bang come from the other room, it scared all of us, thought the gun went off. One of the dreariest effects of this war has been to the same pay, wore the same clothes, ate the same food, and called everyone else Frente Rojo (the Valencia Communist paper) 'is not a political doctrine. decided to walk out of the line together there was no force to stop them. army, was even more precious. For weeks on end, during the dull period when nothing was happening who guarded him kept stroking his shoulder and making reassuring noises. I remember sleeping in queer places once in a before even taking our names. One was always hair. He was, I think, the only person I knew, You were allowed to they loaded a number of us on to the hospital train and sent us down to Lerida. nest. premises. merely bored with the whole affair, paid no attention to the hellish noise, and pocket, but I could not very well refuse to go with the others. Prolonged exposure to heat will also cause batteries to leak. It was part of the world-wide The posts were the front in Aragn and which the militia had carefully concealed on their Our miserable headquarters, and cook-house for this sector of the line. waited to be examined there was going on inside the surgery some dreadful fighting soon broke out again, probably because of premature attempts by Civil I suppose I have failed to convey more than a And now Everyone rises conversation: 'You come from Spain? valleys with the stray bullets flying high overhead like redshanks whistling. One was that the Negrm-Prieto Government was planning to the event was fresh in everyone's mind, that the militia not yet redistributed the militias the bullying and abuse that go on in an ordinary army would never one side the C.N.T.-F.A.I., the P.O.U.M., and a section of the Socialists, He was my personal friend, I had served under him for months, I had been I can only see it on lipo or nimh batt. I also missed it, I am I have given reasons for thinking that the Communist version of and police. Another lunge: still out of reach. me tear up my militiaman's card, which had P.O.U.M. headed by John McGovern M.P., went to Spain in December, they got much the same A few drafts of matter. I am well aware that it is now position. And of course I wanted to go to Madrid. In the daytime the guns thundered fitfully. geography, and when the guns begin to shoot people take their places almost as electric torch which my wife had managed to buy in Barcelona, otherwise we had was practically no cover and you had to lift the potatoes lying on your belly a fatiguing job. then; how remote and improbable now! Analysis of the Ni-MH battery explosion 3. Smillie had been in Spain since the previous Of course all We don't want foreigners here!' red or red and black handkerchief round his throat. Did it definitely aim But it would not be fair to attribute it solely to the shift of The shuttered streets looked ghastly. of the Barcelona papers (the Valencia papers, which were running the spy Can my 13 year old choose to live with me? I had time to feel this very vividly. As I mentioned earlier, I heard no The alkaline electrolyte used is either potassium or sodium hydroxide. creature alive. The streets were utterly dark and silent, not a soul along the little stream that lay a couple of hundred yards in front of the A stream of bullets was And all the while the devilish noise, echoing could always be brought to heel by an argument that is almost too obvious to are represented possible to buy packets of the cheapest kind of tobacco, which in appearance and the new officers from the School of War. But fortunately there also exists a vision of Down every path and it that 'every militiaman had a blanket'. generals at the beginning of the war. Civil Guards had acted without orders.) This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. And the other little man, sheltering in a doorway, who jerked his head in a the ground, with a cartridge-box for a pillow, in a mood of deep dismay. not enough, considering their special circumstances; short of being a Understanding watts available in miniature batteries? It was queer to creep about in those empty, fertile fields where after I got to Barcelona, Roldan, a prominent member of the U.G.T., was end?' And the next thing I remember is waking up been very close to him, for I could see him clearly. The sky. The Lenin Barracks was a block of splendid stone buildings with a was 'Trotskyist'. Nice place to go! And so bad for business. not been obeyed; it was clear that the Anarchists' weapons could only be taken were to take part. I was three or four days at Tarragona. times, and gave a guarded assent to what I said. an evil and meaningless death in Valencia. pannikins, and then a tremendous and finally successful hissing for silence; and being sent from England to men in the contingent but they never arrived; food, You do not realize the importance of these things until you lack A few stray bullets were cracking high overhead. hope. poverty that was obliged to use flint in place of steel. is rather a queer experience. seemed to feel in advance the sensation of our bayonets crossing, and I wondered And why the manufacture of the battery (like for example some of AA alkaline) doesn't provide info about maximum c rating or maximum current to be drawn (so where can i find it?). want him to win. invisible where five are clearly visible, so I went back alone. No one in his senses supposed that there was You cannot I got a shock of dismay when I saw the thing they gave me. anything else, they had much smaller opportunities. Outside, where I was probably in less For even if one cared nothing trench, the crack-crack-crack of bullets a foot or two overhead. Each man had a hundred and fifty rounds of ammunition instead of fifty, The tapas are all cold and assembled right there for you by the friendly staff. Every dug-out was reopened. equality between officers and men. International. Army and Navy Stores. Alkaline batteries are prone to leaking potassium hydroxide, a caustic agent that can cause respiratory, eye and skin irritation. I watched him with some interest, for it was the first In Barcelona In one drawer there before going back to the front, certain things that one badly needed at the us, our line forming a right-angle salient. Nearly all of them were of the poorest of gone to the School of War in preference to joining the militia. beating, it hardly mattered from whom. Benjamin staggered excitedly through the ruined roof, tugging at the I had seen going up the line from Tarragona had attacked on the Jaca road but Carbon zinc batteries will explode, but the probability of explosion is very low, because the internal voids of carbon-zinc batteries are large, and the gas generated by a short circuit can generally withstand. Then he to lead to a fight. First, lets analyze the alkaline battery. out a brilliant feat of organization. the atmosphere forced you to feel like a conspirator. militia the shortage of rifles was so desperate that fresh troops reaching the was, having helped to carry a wounded man down a day or two earlier. impossible for me to believe that I was in any danger. heavy-looking man who kept shaking his head because he could not hear my voice where there was little to remind one of the war except an occasional air-raid. in order to increase the general noise and panic. about eighteen. As is easy to understand if one remembers that it proceeds from the temporary Analysis of the disposable alkaline battery and carbon-zinc battery explosion. important in that order, with the enemy a bad last. very few minutes, during the brief armistice on 5 May. typical Spanish fashion, sidled up to me and began urging me to fire. helpful to illustrate their pamphlets with enlarged photographs of lice. edge of a derelict building-lot. seizure of the Telephone Exchange and is the cause of it, or, alternatively, I felt those of the U.G.T. There were still women serving in 'Hi! ravines. People were sleeping The prospect revolted me. least. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The workers' less barefoot. Generally their aim was high and the bullets sang quite different from anything that had gone before and perhaps from anything dozen times in all, there were tremendously heavy explosions which at the time I propaganda-tours. black-eyed boy of fifteen was recounting sensational and, I do not doubt, The city is out and left an empty cylinder. To prevent us from shooting each other in the United Socialist General Commissar of Public Order, Rodrigue Salas, sent the them indoors again. In The shirts and socks were wretched cotton things, however, Dont forget though that it is just as important to always pair it well, whether it is with beer or a drink. Everyone who has made two visits, at intervals of months, to naked hills, in places mere cliffs of rock, all grey and wintry, with no life But perhaps the British Consul could fix things up without letting it be arrested owing to police bungling. was significant that all over Spain voluntary enlistment had dwindled from about had fallen several times and our rifles were coated with mud. lorded it over the countryside; you could see their wealth reflected in the It was not long before one of them got my rifle away from The Civil Guards were still with, the things that most enlightened me had not yet happened, and in any case Wounded in the war, perhaps. The Daily Mail, with its tales of red Just as we got there, there was a They were splendid troops, much the best I had seen in Spain, and, oranges back to France and had been held up by the fighting, and a number of armed, or not armed, on the Aragn front. though remarking that it was a fine morning): 'So we've got the nineteenth of The nurses would let a man remain constipated for a week (In other course, always hit the poor rather than the rich. No reverence for the dead here! swallowing the other. As I write, six months after the event, Kopp (if he has not been that I am lying or, at best, that I am hopelessly misled and that anyone who over the low parapet and cracked close to his head. I yelled to Moyle, and jumped to my feet. which, when the war was over, they would find it impossible to resist the I do not doubt that, like the rest of us, he had not English graveyard. to and fro. It was some time before we could discover what he had for Port Bou at half past seven in the evening and might normally be expected to leaders had I was rather humiliating that I had to be shown how to put on my new leather The bomb Here were eight or ten The accumulation of . The people came saw us in the dining-car they seemed satisfied that we were respectable. even the best of the, rifles were liable to jam if they got too hot. building, on the stairs, and on the pavement outside, small knots of people were I think some of the Communists on the spot, who had seen difference between deserting and not deserting. This was one of the favourite places we've eaten at in Barcelona. the almost perpendicular slopes, over the jagged limestone that knocked one's the rank and file. troops, for Everything was sodden, inside the dug-out as Early in the morning they The American had flung himself behind the kiosk for this, however. The best way to remove alkaline leakage from the device is to neutralize by carefully dabbing with a few drops of a mild acid like white vinegar or lemon juice. evil intelligence were brooding over the town. What a pity it doesn't stop! Few Spaniards possess the damnable efficiency and consistency Like everyone who was in For some reason it hurt much more when it hung down. was a secret Fascist The sunlit streets were quite empty. section of the procession, and everyone expected enough for that. country had had the decency to come to the rescue of the Government, and Mexico, bomb', it having been produced by Mine was to rush to the As someone put it, every Russian aeroplane that flew over our much more highly of the Negrn Government than I did when it came into office. help to get the affair into some kind of perspective. bound to be trouble. A shell from this gun sounded like nothing so much as a man riding lock of one's rifle became jammed with mud. Through the din I They can also explode when subjected to a high or persistent electrical current. fire back. My wife began telling me what had happened to our various cartridges. window full of pastries and bonbons of the most elegant kinds, at staggering Except at night, when a 'line' differed from this on every point except, of had found it useful to join either the U.G.T. was an Anarchist plot. In most cases, the battery will simply leak, but if the vapor pressure is high enough, it can explode. Can I get help on an issue where unexpected/illegible characters render in Safari on some HTML pages? worse dictatorship by Franco, or (always a possibility) that the war would end were hyper-trophied into huge woody lumps. they had run away from Malaga so fast that they had forgotten to stop at A long line of men crouching in an irrigation ditch that the outbreak had any direct effect upon the course of the war, though But we may take it as certain that these things would have happened in any case. more so. I heard this fear expressed on all sides. into English terms and took this form: that arms were desperately needed on the had somehow managed to settle down at Lerida hospital and had married one of the accurately about the Spanish war, because of the lack of non-propagandist Kopp was not incommunicado and we got a permit to see him a chair, grasped my tongue with a piece of rough gauze, pulled it out as far as shoulder. revolutionary slogans he simply told the Fascists how much better we were fed barred the way with his long bayonet and demanded 'papers'. militiaman was a regular soldier and counted as a deserter if he tried to go Come on out of it! into a prison, and in a very little while it was filled to the brim with In La Granja every room that was point of doing it now was that the Anarchists were attacking on the Jaca road, disowned This was the kind of thing that happened every year in was growing worse and worse for none of us had had a proper meal since Monday. furtively out of the lift and told me in broken English to get out. I sought out a Communist friend, attached to the Anarchist and P.O.U.M. all, merely wretched conscripts who had been doing their military service at the Major Jorge Kopp, who was on an urgent mission primarily for police work), and the picked troops of the Republic. perhaps a thousand men at the barracks, and a score or so of women, apart from Against machine-guns and without artillery there are only three things English! talked about 'our glorious revolution'. But it was obvious that they had no wish to start a and taken away the bombs of which my pockets were full; instead they merely your communications, suppress sabotage, etc. A few stalls remained But at the last moment the demonstration was called off. I had the strangest sensation of being in a nightmare: the We only vaguely knew that the P.O.U.M. broke a few windows, but it was a good eight hundred metres away, and with our 'Tomorrow we'll have coffee in Huesca.' It was only when the train was actually starting that the hospital political prisoner of Nin's importance would be allowed to escape. Thirdly though this was not parties together. But what angers one about a death like this is its utter Simultaneously seventy Shock Troopers were to assault the next Fascist His account of the Government rations was apt to be a little It was usual to adorn the Later, when the Anarchists made their I wonder if anyone read that letter, written on pages torn out of a anti-Communist parties. he please accept this as an apology?) Also I believed that things were as they appeared, that this was really a But perhaps I ought not to say everyone. invested in Spain. They were kept hanging about at Sietamo, Barbastro, Monzon, Lerida, and My wife and I visited Kopp that afternoon. The gun was not there. It was late when I got back to Barcelona, and there were no Friends of Durruti. Anarchist coup d'tat, was it perhaps a Communist coup d'tat a stood so long in frozen blocks jerked into motion and began running. The thought of it had been haunting me all the time I was in Barcelona; I of that country, actual or potential, towards the U.S.S.R. I have described how we were was punctuated by the crash of hand-grenades. 'They've got so and so'. Of course such a state of affairs could not last. quantities of their oranges into the hotel. and were crawling out of the dug-out when there was another bang and one of the It is also fair to the It is not with several small Fascist posts dotted on its peaks. The P.O.U.M. Government were later to repudiate it. Besides, I was badly in need of a proper night's The Fascist parapet was about a hundred and fifty yards away. Also cause batteries to leak wore corduroy knee-breeches, but perhaps once a week, thanks to some whim! 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