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maner, and of the perception of the Civil War by Hemingvvay and Dos Passos, is
given in W. B. Watson and Barron Whaley, "The Spanish Earth of Dos Passos and
Hemingway," unpublished, 1967. The film dealt with the collectivized village of
Fuentiduena in Valencia (a village collectivized by the VCT, incidentally), For the
libertarian Dos Passos, the revolution was the dominant theme; it was the antifascist
war, however, that was to preoccupy Hemingway. The role of Dos Passos was quickly
forgotten, because of the fact (as Watson and Whaley point out) that Dos Passos
had become anathema to the left for his criticisms of communist policies in Spain.
124 As far as the East is concerned, Rocker (The Tragedy a/ Spain, p. 25) claims that
"the Russian press, for reasons that are easily understood" never uttered one least little
word about the effortS of the Spanish workers and peasants at social reconSHUCtion."
I cannot check the accuracy of this claim, but it would hardly be surprising if
Lt were correct.
125 See Patricia A.M. Van der Esch, Prelude to War: The International Repercussions of
the Spanish Civil War (l935-1939) (The Hague, Maninus Nijhoff, 1951), p. 47, and
Brenan, op. cit. , p. 329, n. 1. The conservative character of the Basque governmenr
was also, apparently, largely a result of French pressure. See BrOlJ( and Temime , op.
cit. , p. 172, n. 8.
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126 See Dante A. Puzzo, Spain and the Great Powers: 1936-1941 (New York,
Columbia University Press, 1962), pp. 86 f. This book gives a detailed and very
insightful analysis of the international background of the Civil War.
127 Jules Sauerwein, dispatch to the New York Times dated July 26. Cited by Puzzo, op.
cit. , p. 84.
128 Cf., for example, Jacbon, op. cit. , Pl" 248 f.
129 As reponed by Herschel V. Johnson of the American embassy in London; cited by
Puzzo, op. cit. , p. 100.
1 3 0 See Sroue and Temime, op. cit. , pp. 288-289.
1 3 1 Cited by Thomas, The Spanish Civil War, p. 531, n. 3. Rocker, The Tragedy of
Spain, p. 14, quotes (without reference) a proposal by Churchill for a five-year "neutral
dictatorship" to "tranquilize" the country, after which they could "perhaps look
for a revival of parliamemary inS{itutions."
1 3 2 Puzzo, op. cit. , p. I 16.
1 33 Ibid., p. 147. Eden is referring, of course, co the Soviet Union. For an analysis of
Russian assistance co rhe Spanish Republic, see Cattell, op. cit. , Ch. 8.
1 34 Cf. Puzzo, op. cit., Pl'. 147-48.
1 3 5 Ibid. , p. 212.
1 36 Ibid. , p. 93.
1 37 Op. cit. , p. 248.
1 3 8 Puzzo, op. cit. , p. lSI f.
1 39 Ibid. , pp. 154-55 and n. 27.