My Mission to Spain: Watching the Rehearsal for World War II
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Spain then was to be the testing ground. Here would be staged the dress rehearsal for the totalitarian war on liberty and democracy in Europe; here public reaction to outrageous methods would be tried out; here the new method of warring on civilian populations would be ventured; here the term “fifth column” would be coined, and its use tried.
A description of the Spanish Civil War as a precursor to World War II.