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  1. Cover
  2. Brand Page
  3. Orwell in Spain
  4. Orwell in Spain
  5. Introduction
  6. Editorial Note
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Orwell’s Journey to Spain, December 1936
  9. Extract from ‘As I Please’, 42 [The Journey to Spain]
  10. Jennie Lee to Margaret M. Goalby, 23 June 1950: Orwell’s Arrival in Barcelona
  11. Orwell in Spain, December 1936
  12. Eileen Blair to Leonard Moore
  13. ‘British Author with the Militia’
  14. Eileen Blair to her mother
  15. To Eileen Blair
  16. Extract from letter from Eileen Blair to Leonard Moore
  17. Eileen Blair to Dr Laurence (‘Eric’) O’Shaughnessy
  18. Extract from letter to Victor Gollancz
  19. Orwell’s Wound
  20. To Cyril Connolly
  21. Eileen Blair to Dr Laurence (‘Eric’) O’Shaughnessy
  22. Escape from Spain
  23. BARCELONA 13TH JULY, 1937
  24. Charles Doran
  25. Homage to Catalonia
  26. X
  27. ‘Spilling the Spanish Beans’
  28. Eileen Blair to John McNair
  29. George Kopp to Dr Laurence O’Shaughnessy
  30. Translation of letter written in Spanish by George Kopp to Lieutenant-Colonel Burillo,7 Chief of Police, Barcelona
  31. George Kopp to Eileen Blair
  32. Review of The Spanish Cockpit by Franz Borkenau; Volunteer in Spain by John Sommerfield
  33. To Rayner Heppenstall
  34. ‘Eye-Witness in Barcelona’
  35. Abstracts of Reports on the Spanish Civil War in the Daily Worker and News Chronicle, 1936–7
  36. To Amy Charlesworth
  37. To Charles Doran
  38. Unpublished Response to Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War
  39. To Geoffrey Gorer
  40. Review of Red Spanish Notebook by Mary Low and Juan Brea; Heroes of the Alcazar by R. Timmermans; Spanish Circus by Martin Armstrong
  41. To H. N. Brailsford
  42. Review of Storm Over Spain by Mairin Mitchell; Spanish Rehearsal by Arnold Lunn; Catalonia Infelix by E. Allison Peers; Wars of Ideas in Spain by Josée Castillejo; Invertebrate Spain by Josée Ortega y Gasset
  43. H. N. Brailsford to Orwell
  44. To H. N. Brailsford
  45. Review of The Tree of Gernika by G. L. Steer; Spanish Testament by Arthur Koestler
  46. To the Editor, Time and Tide
  47. To Raymond Mortimer
  48. To Stephen Spender
  49. To Geoffrey Gorer
  50. ‘Notes* on the Spanish Militias
  51. To the Editor, The Times Literary Supplement
  52. Sir Richard Rees to Orwell
  53. To the Editor, The Listener
  54. Review of Spain’s Ordeal1 by Robert Sencourt; Franco’s Rule [anonymous]
  55. Review of The Civil War in Spain by Frank Jellinek1
  56. Review of Searchlight on Spain by the Duchess of Atholl1
  57. To the Editor, Manchester Guardian
  58. To Yvonne Davet
  59. To Raymond Postgate
  60. Orwell made two copies of this summary of the article in La Flèche of 14 October 1938, by L.-P. Foucaud.
  61. Review of The Church in Spain, 1737-1937 by E. Allison Peers; Crusade in Spain by Eoin O’Dujfy1
  62. To Frank Jellinek
  63. ‘Release of George Kopp’
  64. ‘Caesarean Section in Spain
  65. To Yvonne Davet
  66. Review of Hotel in Flight by Nancy Johnstone
  67. Review of The Last Days of Madrid by S. Casado, translated by Rupert Croft-Cooke; Behind the Battle by T. C. Worsley
  68. Review of The Spanish Dilemma by E. Allison Peers; A Key to Victory: Spain by Charles Duff
  69. Extract from War-time Diary
  70. Review of The Forge by Arturo Barea,1 translated and with an introduction by Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell2
  71. Extract from letter to Partisan Review
  72. Extract from BBC Weekly News Review for India, 22 [Comparison with the Spanish Civil War]
  73. ‘Looking Back on the Spanish War’ [1942?]
  74. Proposed BBC Broadcast on the Spanish Civil War
  75. Review of Spain in Eclipse, 1937–1943 by E. Allison Peers; Behind the Spanish Mask by Lawrence Dundas
  76. Extract from ‘As I Please’, 10 [How the lie becomes truth]
  77. ‘The Eight Years of War: Spanish Memories’
  78. Review of An Interlude in Spain by Charles d’Ydewalle, translated by Eric Sutton
  79. Review of The Clash by Arturo Barea1
  80. Orwell’s Pamphlet Collection
  81. A summary of letters from and to David Astor, 4 and 5
  82. Further Reading

The act of accusation against the P.O.U.M. repeats the charge of espionage formulated by the Communist press. On this subject two international delegations have obtained statements from the principal members of the Spanish Government.

To the first delegation, composed of Fenner Brockway, general secretary of the I.L.P., Charles Wolff and R. Louzon, editor of La Révolution Prolétarienne:

M. Irujo, Minister of Justice, declared: ‘That the accusations of espionage brought against the P.O.U.M. were not founded on any fact that could be taken seriously’ (aucun fait serieux).

M. Miravitlles, general secretary of the Department of Propaganda of the Catalan Generalidad, declared: ‘That the “Golfin” document* was for him and for President Companys a forgery so obvious that at the moment when it was presented to him, he burst into such a shout of laughter that no one dared make use of it any longer.’

M. Largo Caballero stated: ‘That if at present the P.O.U.M. was being prosecuted for espionage, this was solely for political reasons and because the Communist Party wished the P.O.U.M. to be suppressed.’

To a second delegation, composed of Mr. Maxton, M.P, M. Weill-Curiel, M. Yves Levy and M. L.-P. Foucaud, various Spanish ministers made similar declarations.

M. Irujo, at 12 o’clock on the 20 August 1937 at the Ministry of Justice in Valencia, stated: ‘That there was no proof of espionage against the P.O.U.M. and that the “Golfin” document was valueless.’

M. Ortega y Gasset expressed his disbelief in the P.O.U.M. leaders being Fascist spies. M. Prieto, then Minister of War, received the delegation on August 23 1937. Not having seen the dossier, he refused to speak of the accusation of espionage, but added that: ‘The arrest of the P.O.U.M. leaders had not been decided by the Government, but by the police, which the Communists had infiltrated (noyautée) according to their usual custom.’

All these statements, in particular Prieto’s, can be obtained in the report on the Maxton delegation published by Independent News. In addition there is the pamphlet Terror in Spain by Mr John McGovern M.P, dealing with a later delegation and confirming the above.

The fate of this draft is given in Orwell’s own handwritten note at the head of the letter:

Draft of letter sent to Raymond Postgate at the time of POUM trial. Similar letters sent to J. F. Horrabin & C. E. M. Joad.3 All, of course, unable to do anything, but all answered sympathetically & appeared to accept my version. R. P. offered to give part of ‘Fact’4 to publicity about the 29th division if J. McNair supplied the facts.