“For our dead are a part of the earth of Spain now and the earth of Spain can never die.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
"On the American Dead in Spain", New Masses (February 14, 1939)
“As long as all our dead live in the Spanish earth, and they will live as long as the earth lives, no system of tyranny ever will prevail in Spain.”
"On the American Dead in Spain", New Masses (February 14, 1939)
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