It is only too dreadfully apparent now that the war is being waged with a brutality and all-enveloping savagery on both sides that take one back to the devastations of the Thirty Years War. But for Mr. Gerahty the Reds commit atrocities—the Whites mete out "drastic justice." His bias is at times almost childish—as when he says that Red headquarters when taken over by the Nationalists always had a peculiar musty smell which he associates with "Bolsheviks" and which in future will always reveal the presence of these creatures to him.
Two Pairs of Spectacles Two statements in particular are so extraordinary that I compared them with the experiences of another correspondent who was also reporting the war on Francos side. Mr.
Gerahty asserts that no prisoners were executed "without full trial, every facility for defence, and a subsequent revision by a higher and completely dispassionate authority." The other correspondent had seen these "trials The accused were given three minutes to prove that they were Whites and had always been Whites, and if they had not given a satisfactory answer at the end of that time, were executed.
Soldiers and Trade Unionists were shop out of hand.
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