We Saw Spain Die (88 page)

Herbert Matthews (left), Philip Jordan and their interpreter, Kajsa Rothman, visit the birthplace of Cervantes in Alcalá de Henares.

Josephine Herbst, wearing beret, meets the villagers of Fuentidueña del Tajo, to the south-east of Madrid, where Joris Ivens’
The Spanish Earth
was being filmed (late April 1937).

Liston Oak (with beret) watches the front from the Paseo de Rosales in Madrid in 1937 with Hemingway (behind him, moustache-less), Virginia Cowles (with papers) and their interpreter Kajsa Rothman (in leather jacket).

Claud Cockburn (right), founder of the satirical news-sheet,
The Week
, wrote under the pseudonym ‘Frank Pitcairn’ for the
Daily Worker
, before volunteering for the militia unit known as the Quinto Regimiento organized by the Comintern agent, Vittorio Vidali (‘Carlos Contreras’), seen here on the left.

The glamorous American socialite, Virginia Cowles of
Harper’s Bazaar
, in a studio portrait taken in London after her return from Spain in the autumn of 1937.

Kajsa Rothman with a Swedish International Brigader.

George Lowther Steer, second from left with moustache, with a group of French journalists, visits the historic Casa de Juntas, the Basque parliament, in Guernica in January 1937.

Guernica after the German rehearsal for Blitzkrieg.

Juan Negrín hosts a lunch to discuss the display of Picasso’s
Guernica
at the Republican Pavilion in the forthcoming Paris Exhibition (summer 1937). From left to right, Jay Allen, Diana Sheean, Mrs Casper Whitney, Negrín, Muriel Draper and Louis Fischer.

At the League of Nations meeting in Geneva, December 1936, Louis Fischer (centre), with the Soviet and Spanish Foreign Ministers, Maxim Litvinov (left) and Julio Álvarez del Vayo (right).

Tom Wintringham, Commander of the British Battalion of the International Brigades, was badly wounded at the Battle of Jarama. Here he is seen with his lover, and later wife, the American journalist Kitty Bowler, who looked after him.

Safe-conduct issued to Kitty Bowler by the Catalan government, the Generalitat.

Kate Mangan went to Spain following her lover, the German anti-Nazi Jan Kurzke who had joined the International Brigades. They are seen here in the hospital in Valencia after he was wounded.