Herbert Matthews, sobre la última parada de los hombres demacrados, enfermos y desharrapados de las Brigadas Internacionales en Barcelona el 28 de octubre de 1938:
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 them–and above all those who fought with them–knew that these were true soldiers.