SHOULDERING FREEDOM

by Isabel de Palencia ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 18, 1945

Here is the ""truth about Spain"" as she is today, and more specifically about the worldwide movement directed toward achieving once again a free Spain. Isabel de Palencia is the author of several juveniles, and of an autobiography, I Must Have Liberty, which for many provided one of the first eye witness records of the true significance of the struggle within Spain between autocracy and democracy. An introductory chapter outlines the plans projected by the briefly dominant Republic, a program which included land settlement, public education, military reorganization -- three factors abhorrent to the fascistic elements. But without the support -- in men and material -- from Missolini and Hitler, these forces would have failed. With them, the forces of democracy were defeated, driven into exile, confined to centration camps in France, to France's prisons, to seeking refuge wherever there was a welcome (chiefly that meant Mexico, briefly Sweden, Chile, Colombia, Cuba). It is a story, based on actual record, of the reign of terror in Spain, of famine, of persecution, of false propaganda sent out by the France regime. And it is a story too of individual heroism, of group action, of guerilla warfare, of cooperation with United Nation forces, of unflagging faith and preparation for the day of liberation. Singularly lacking in bitterness; provocative, challenging.

Pub Date: July 18, 1945

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Longmans, Green

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 1945

Categories: NONFICTION