Volume 13, Number 5 · September 25, 1969
Writers and Revolutionaries: The Spanish War
By Stephen Spender
The Last Great Cause
by Stanley Weintraub
Weybright and Talley, 340 pp., $8.50
Today the Struggle
by Katharine Bail Hoskins
University of Texas, 294 pp., $7.50
Between the Bullet and the Lie
by Carl Eby
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 352 pp., $6.95
The Fifth Column and four unpublished stories of the Spanish Civil War
by Ernest Hemingway
Scribners, 151 pp., $4.95
The events of the Thirties are sufficiently remote to be 'historic' while at the same time sufficiently near to be discussed among people—some of them still not old—who participated in them. They are therefore a wide-open subject for research. Today, moreover, they interest the young in America and Europe, some of whom feel that there is a parallel between the political-moral issues of that decade—in which politics seemed suddenly concerned with choices between life and death, civilization and barbarism—and issues such as those of Vietnam, racism, and the manipulation of the society by vast military and industrial interests today. Some young people begin to feel that they live in a society influenced by powers—such as those in the Thirties that permitted the Fascists to strangle the Spanish Republicans—which can be met only by their totally committing themselves to an equally all-inclusive counter-political activity.
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