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...Darkness At Noon (TIME, May 26, 1941) Arthur Koestler made, of a man in a Soviet prison cell, one of the great symbols of humanity in our time. In Dialogue With Death* Koestler himself is that symbol. During the Spanish Civil War Koestler went to Spain as correspondent for the London News Chronicle, was captured by Franco's forces. Later the British Government got him out of Spain. But for 102 days (February to May 1937), in prisons at Malaga and Seville, Koestler learned what it means to be sure from hour to hour (yet never sure enough), that...
...faint itching, a sort of sucking void, not entirely unpleasant." At the police station his hypodermic needles and morphine tablets (for suicide) and his golf stockings (he wore them because he dislikes garters) caused a minor sensation. He was registered as wearing women's stockings. Then the cell door slammed shut. Koestler's description of what happens to prisoners after the cell door shuts reduces the dignity of man to the twitching of a laboratory...
...look out. He fails . . . but decides to . . . master the art of pulling himself up by his hands." He dusts the wall-plaster off his suit. He "pulls a face, being determined to prove that he is full of courage and confidence." Suddenly he notices, at the spyhole of his cell door, an eye. It is an eye without a man attached to it, and for a few moments the prisoner's heart stops beating...
...year-old George Deckers knew something about the Belgian underground movement. Maybe he did, but George Deckers was not saying. They marched him off, backed him against a wall. A firing squad took aim. But the squad lowered its rifles and George Deckers was marched back to his cell for further questioning. Still he was silent. Again he was marched to the wall. Again the squad did not fire, and George Deckers was returned to his cell for grilling...
...union of Communists and Anarchists. The Stalinists are strongest among the workers in Lombardy, with a small admixture of students and teachers. The Anarchists . . . have their chief strength in the south, especially in Sicily. ... In 1941 it numbered perhaps a hundred thousand and was organized on the cell system...