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MADRID SURRENDERS
BOUT two and a half- years ago a man who had been blinded by a shell-burst climbed pain- fully, tralling a crutch, up the cold stone stalṛease of Madrid's Ministry of War. He was lear- ing on the shoulder of a militia- man who had left his sentry post to aid him.
At the top of the stairs, in a corridor lit only by a dying candle, were two officers: one was giving anal instructions to the other, off to the front. ·
"Yes, it--19-General-Miaja,” said the sentry.
"General Misja," called the blind man..
"What do you want-of me?” "Nothing, except this: to say to you, Salud, and courage! '". And the blind man turned to face the stairs again.
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That incident has th it some of the spirit of Madrid, from Novem- ber, 1036, through nearly thirty months of siege. There have been, in the world's tormented history, many great sleges, and their stories Include much hunger and much heroism. But there has never been a story greater than that of Madrid.
It is a story not of generals, but of ordinary anonymous men, not well-organised or well-equipped, not showing their quality in a low hours' exciting action, but in month after month of endurance and the refusal to despair.
When most men have forgotten why wars were fought they will still remember, from the Great War, Verdun, where was first sold. shall not pass" and they will, remember in the samo way Madrid's many-voiced 710 pasaran."
They
We who took part in the defence
B.B.C. Plan All
Britain Television TELEVISION is to become a
nation-wide service as soon
as possible, said Mr. F. W. Ogilvie, B.B.C. Director-General, opening the B.B.C.'s travelling exhibition at Liverpool recently. "We have been hard at it for two years," he said, "and we have now We come to a critical landmark.
Flying the oceans has in- deed become almost a com- monplace achievement, yet it is only 20 years since the pioneer crossing of Sir John Alcock and Sir Arthur a thirty, or forly mile radius around Brown, and only twelve London, but as a nucleus of a national years since Sir
Charlesystem.
Kingsford Smith made his name famous by the first trans-Pacific.crossing.
have developed the resources not merely with a view to the benefit of
"The speed at which we can go forward depends on two things; the result of technical experience, and Anunce: The B.B.C, do not get the whole of the 10s. paid for each licence.
WAWANYA
time broadcasting be
At this rate, we may even catch up with the mostan until the end of 1030, llcences have produced £20,000,000. Of that daring imagination of H. G. amount the B.B.C. have had only Wells.
£21,000,000, the Government - laking the other £15,000,000."
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Tom Wintringham
who was at one time in command of the English battalion of the International Brigade fighting in Spain.
of Madrid find it hard to belleve that the story has ended. But on the other hand wo find it un-
marched into the Gran Via. Spain's Piccadilly. And with them were fewer than a dozen "Engilsh "` believable that it has gone.on.zo-as they always called us, even if long. Human desh und blood could not, surely, have endured the January of 1937, and the January of 1938, and the January of 1039.
Ment, butter, milk, eggs, became things you remembered from your childhood. There was no fuel, and Madrid is the highest capital in Europe: the wind comes down on it from mountains where there is always snow. And at any moment the shells might start again.
At any moment death from a clear sky could tear to a pitiful bundle of rags, wife, child, friend. lover, or your own body. You had forgotten the war for an hour: had come into Madrid for a day's leave, had gone to the cinema, And then the shells began.
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Men and women who can endure that etrain for years make us proud that such courage exists in human beings. And we in Britain can be proud also that a handful of our men stood with the Repub- lic'a mliitia when they turned to Hold Madrid.
As General Franco's troops stormed the south-western suburbs of the city, on the second Sunday in November, 1930, the first of the International Brigade
we were Scottish, Irish, Welsh, or from the Empire.
That night, just behind the front line, these lads spent the whole night learning how to handle and how to repair the old machine-gun ti s had been given..
Next day, before action began, that gun was taken away and they were given another type: a Lowis gun such as the BEF. used. They were well pleased,
They used that gun and other weapons well. And two-thirds of them are dend.
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But they were replaced. More Engilsh came. In December there. were three such groups, in January a full company, in February a bat-- tallon,
I took them into action hurriedly, carly in February, 1937. to help in stopping General Franco's biggest drive aimed at surrounding. Madrid,
Within an hour's fighting we found that there was a gap in our line of three miles to the south of us, and that the battallen on our right had been pushed back, We held, somehow, giving a few hun- dred yards, till the gaps were filled and the "big push" stopped. Tho last road into Madrid was snfo.
That cost English liven, men who were my friends. But I think the
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dead would say, as those crippled for Ufe have said, that it was worth it.
It is not easy for anyone in Britain to be proud of non-inter- vention, of the policy of the British Government throughout the war in Spain: We feel that thesa men who died there were better repre- sentatives of Britain than the Government that denied them and their Spanish comrades the arms necessary for victory.
From the ridge the British battalion frst held you can look along ↑
SCO river-gorge and Madrid's houses shine white in the sunlight. We shall look-back- along the corridor of the years to the defence of Madrid as to a shining algnal.
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That signal does not only mean, to us, that mon can still endure and defy agony. It also incans something nearer and more prac- tical; that Fascism la not so strong as it pretends to be.
Judged by any ordinary military standards General Franco should have been able to surround Madrid and take it in two months. He could not do so for two years.
That upset the time-table for the Fascist conquest of Europe. It gave the peoples of Europe a breathing-space in which to see. and prepare to deal with, the menace that now threatens so many of them.
And the defence of Madrid has.. mado clear the basic weakness of a totalitarifin armed force,
This weakness is not lack of courage: they have plenty of brave men. It is lack of initiative. Buch forces are drilled to obey only’and all the time, never to think for themselves, nover to act on their own.
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Madrid's millia, weary, hungry,, and in rags, opposing with ma- chine-guns, twenty years old, the up-to-date And overwhelming armament of their opponents, have proved-lying or dying, holding or defeated that democracy can make men stronger than the Fas- cista.
Ignorant men but desperately eager to leum; untrained men, but adding to obedience a great desire to use all that was'in' them for the shared purpose, the aim that was fully theirs as well as their manders--these men.mado them-. solves and thir city so strong that' General Franco wisely, from March, 1937, to March, 1030, avelded any serious attack upon Madrid,
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What will happen now no one can tell. The people of Madrid have had hope, for two years; hope is a fire that can smoulder after defcat, oven after massacres,
In Madrid's life this is the end of a chapter, not the whole of the talo, But whatever the bitterness of surrender and defeat, we can count this chapter noble. Men and women havo realsted, up to and boyand their powern, what they bollaved to be evil
Megh of that resistheo the heart; un- broken amid the 'broken houseš, has been Madridi