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Francisco Franco, the fascist General of the rebels fighting against the duly elected democratic government in Spain, was backed by Spanish monarchists, the Catholic Church and the fascist regimes in Italy and Germany. His National Guard was heavily supplemented by Moorish mercenaries from northern Africa with fascist money. Franco was flown into Spain by the British Government.
barkingmad33 3 years ago
Soon after the Loyalist cause was lost, and Franco installed, the Governments of UK and USA readily recognized his dictatorship until his death of natural causes in the 1970s.
barkingmad33 3 years ago
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An interesting aspect of history that has been so effectively buried in America, is that untrained young American men & women left campuses and jobs to fight for popular democracy (a pure American ideal) in Spain in 1937. They were members of the Lincoln Brigade. In the late 40s & 50s, they were hounded by the FBI as "premature anti-fascists", aka communists, during the McCarthy era.
barkingmad33 3 years ago
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Unheralded and ignored by history, they have mostly all quietly died off. There were communist peasants, among many many others, fighting alongside of them for the loyalist cause and for this reason, these Americans were labeled communists as well. However, as Churchill appropriately stated in WWII, "I would enlist the devil himself as an ally in the fight for the survival of my country." And so would any patriot.
barkingmad33 3 years ago
Denis Brian (Hemingway biographer, The True Gen): "In his memoir, Bringing Up the Rear, S.L.A. Marshall wrote that he wasn't surprised at Hemingway's original decision to be neutral, but he was astonished when Ernest changed his mind and went to Spain and wrote as 'a passionate crusader for the Loyalist side, blind to its increasingly red discoloration and uncompromising ugliness.' He was not blind to it.
barkingmad33 3 years ago
But he thought communists were vital to win the war against the fascists. He reluctantly concluded that heir tough, ruthless methods were a necessary evil."
barkingmad33 3 years ago
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Archibald MacLeish (Poet, Hemingway's friend, combatant-journalist covering the Spanish Civil War): "I wrote a piece in the Nation to the same effect, stating my own position that in a good cause, and the Spanish Civil War was a good cause, I didn't give a goddamn whom I was working with. The question was whether you could do anything about the Loyalist cause itself. I wish I'd used Churchill's phrase about welcoming the devil himself as an ally in a righteous cause to defeat your enemy."
barkingmad33 3 years ago