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IN SPAIN, and almost only in Spain, there still lives a spirit to resist the bureaucratic tyranny of the State and the intellectual intolerance of all doctrinaires. For that reason, all poets must follow the course of this struggle with open and passionate partisanship.

Herbert Read supports the Spanish Republic

in the survey Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War (1937)

If we are to preserve the heritage of our fathers, we must be prepared to fight as the gallant loyalists of Spain fought and died, holding back with their bodies and blood for two and a half years the flood of barbarism that swept over Europe until they succumbed to the strange indifference of democratic nations in whose defense they were valiantly fighting. World War II began in Spain 1936.

Claude G. Bowers,

former Ambassador of the United States of America in Spain

1933-1939.

My Mission to Spain. Watching The Rehearsal for World War Two New York, November 1953 (foreword vi)