> Ernest Hemingway (another with socialist leanings)
That’s a tad unfair.
Hemingway fought Franco and his Nazi allies during the Spanish Civil War because it was the right thing to do. He was therefore many years ahead of the rest of America in figuring out the threat presented by unbridled Fascism.
The American Volunteer Group got the same idea next, under Gen Claire Chennault, fighting the Japanese as “The Flying Tigers” in the airspace over China.
It took Pearl Harbor for the rest of America to get onto the same page — long after most the rest of the world were well-and-truly engaged.
Hemingway was many things, but it is just wrong to dismiss him as “another with Socialist Leanings”. McCarthy was all about that!
The “Republican” forces in Spain were not Republican at all...they were mostly communists, and, among other things, rounded up, tortured, and executed thousands of priests and nuns, for the sin of being Catholic and Christian.
Spain, and the Western world at large, would have been far worse off had the “Republicans” won the Spanish civil war.
Rubbish. He did it because murderous communism was fashionable in his circle. To label Franco and the loyalists as dangerous fascists is the worst sort of unthinking, propagandising cant.
The Republicans were not the good guys anymore than was Stalin - who provided them with arms and troops.
The Lincolns were not ahead of their time - they were old school US Communists useful as propaganda but badly used by the socialists they went to support.
I think that Hemmingway was just in love with Spain and changed his mind on their CW after penning one opus, but I could be wrong on that count.
That’s a tad unfair... McCarthy was all about that!Oh, and it's fair to compare me with Joe McCarthy?