One of Mr. Tiltman's best chapters is that on Spain. Here again the connection with the Far East is suggested by such phrases as "a frontier e from Hankow to Madrid." There a dramatic tribute to the Spanish Republicans at the end of their defeat in Catalonia who in their retreat were only a mile from French territory:
There, with France only a few yards awa: their ground and died as a final salute io the Republic in disintegration. There was something symbolic of the undying stubborn spirit of democratic Spain in that last senseless defence.
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