Word: madrid
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...time was 1938 and the place Madrid. By the numbers of the dead alone (600,000 on both sides), the Spanish Civil War might have been enough to choke Europe in a more civilized century; but it proved to be only an hors d'oeuvre for World War II. It was also a war in which the issues, decided and undecided, were stated with some clarity. It had its own political and moral ambiguities, but it lacked the elements of grand tragic farce of World War II, in which the West was forced into alliance with one monster...
...minority can influence and finally take over a popular wartime regime. Also, he trained in the NKVD or the Spanish SIM, a corps of future Red quislings-Togliatti. Ulbricht, Malinovsky, Tito. Without endorsing Franco, many readers will draw the hard conclusion from Historian Thomas' documents that if the Madrid-Barcelona republic had beaten Franco, it would have been as a Communist or "people's" republic...
...Sixty thousand young Europeans (mostly French, but 2,800 Americans and 2,000 British were among them) fought in the international brigades or otherwise served the Republican cause. Their battalions bore honored national names-"Abraham Lincoln," "Masaryk" or "Garibaldi." They may or may not (Thomas is unsure) have saved Madrid's civilians-in-arms from Franco's 20,000-man besieging army, but whatever their effectiveness in battle, the brigades were an international showpiece. Also, except for the Communists among them, who presumably knew what they were doing, they were all betrayed by Moscow; the volunteers discovered, mostly...
...Madrid is the heart. Our moments of tenderness blossom...
...generation for whom Madrid was the heart is long dead, or should at least appear among the psychological casualties. There came others to say later that the cause in Spain...