October 26, 2005

An Orwell note

Per a correspondent at Charles' Links it seems that in the photo essay Joel and I posted there last year, our published guesses were too charitable about a plaque we photographed in the Sierra de Alcubierre.

Bill Sinclair, a scholar of the Spanish Civil War, writes that the symbol we couldn't identify on the plaque is that of the Spanish Falange, and he suggests that the text itself quite likely would have been carved by a Republican or suspected-Republican political prisoner compelled to honor Franco's side.

Posted by Martha Bridegam at October 26, 2005 08:04 PM
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