Quan les campanes de les diferents esglésies de Calatayud, cridaven a missa de mitja nit en el Nadal de 1938, vareig sentir un goig que era impossible d’esplicar, i que no podien entendre els que sempre havien celebrat aquella diada. Davant del nostre quartel general, instal·lat en el casino principal de Calatayud, hi havia l’església de [...] »

Herbert Matthews, describing the last parade of the International Brigades in Barcelona on 28 October 1938, said of the thin, drawn, shabby, diseased men: They were not clad in spic-and-span uniforms; their garb was nondescript; they had no arms, and they could not seem to keep in step or in line. But every one who saw [...] »

To drive home how enormously more horrible the next World War will be than its predecessor, Professor Haldane cited cold figures: “Between January 1917 and November 1918, German aeroplanes dropped 71 tons of bombs on England. These killed 837 people. . . . On March 16-19, 1938, 41 tons of bombs were dropped on Barcelona [...] »

Thrifty Joseph Stalin belatedly bet another blue chip on the Spanish Loyalists last week in the form of ten splendid Soviet warplanes. Tons of other Soviet war paraphernalia have reached the Leftists in the past month via France. Amid wild cheering in recently bombed Barcelona, Soviet war birds in mass formation darkened the sky and [...] »

The 1938 aurora borealis The “aurora borealis” is a luminescent meteor, a phenomenon that frequently happens in areas close to the North Pole and which can also be seen in rather exceptional circumstances in regions of Central Europe. So the aurora borealis that could quite clearly be seen from the Pyrenees, and even from the top [...] »