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To: DieHard the Hunter
Hemingway fought Franco and his Nazi allies during the Spanish Civil War because it was the right thing to do.

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.

14 posted on 09/24/2007 6:27:10 AM PDT by Romulus ("Ira enim viri iustitiam Dei non operatur")
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To: Romulus

> 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.

...ergo Franco kept good company./s


15 posted on 09/24/2007 6:30:43 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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