Vol. XXVII, No. 1 March 2010 “...and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” ABRAHAM LINCOLN

FOUNDED BY THE VETERANS OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE

Poster drawn by Daily Worker cartoonist Maurice Del Bourgo as a gift to a group of kids from The Bronx Coops, who called themselves “Young Defenders of Spanish Democracy.” Thanks to Jack Ziebel for passing it on to ALBA. To the Editor: Responding to a New York Times story of December 10, 2009, “Remembrance, and Maybe Sainthood, for Bishop Fulton J. Sheen,” I was a member of a delegation, headed Online Volunteer by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, that went to Starting with this issue, The Volunteer is Spain early in 1964 to act as observers at the trial of the going online! Carabanchel Ten, who had been arrested and were later convicted for trying to organize unions in Franco Spain. Here’s our new address: I had a different perspective on Bishop Sheen and on the www.albavolunteer.org Catholic Church’s unrelenting and successful campaign In addition to the full text of the March 2010 print issue, to prevent the United States and its European allies the online edition carries materials such as photos, from lifting the embargo on the legally elected Spanish videos, longer pieces, and a new blog. government. Had they not succeeded, it might have We are planning only 3 printed issues this year, for prevented Franco’s allies from launching World War II, and Spring, Fall, and Winter. The Summer issue will appear I and millions of my compatriots, if we were fortunate to ONLY online. have survived, might not have had to spend three to four To be sure you don’t miss ALL the news, years in the military prosecuting the war against fascism. send YOUR email address to If, as the article states, it takes 30 years for Bishop [email protected] Sheen to achieve sainthood, it took at least that time for the We’ll keep you posted. Spanish people to rid themselves of the yoke of fascism. As a side note, on the day we arrived in Spain, its Prime If you have not been receiving the ALBA email Minister, Carrero Blanco, was assassinated when the car in newsletter, please email us at which he was driving to his office was blown up. The [email protected] and ask to subscribe. underground press reported that Carrero Blanco had tried to get to heaven, but was only able to reach the fifth floor. That was about the only glint of humor in what was otherwise a dismal period for the Spanish people. Henry Foner The olunteer Brooklyn, NY V founded by the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade ALBA Teachers’ Institute Expands into Ohio an ALBA publication After holding successful week-long institutes for high- 799 Broadway, Suite 341 school teachers in New York City and Tampa, Florida, last New York, NY 10003 year, ALBA is proud to announce its first institute in the (212) 674-5398 Midwest, entitled “Ohio and the Spanish Civil War.” Co-sponsored by the Ohio Humanities Council, Oberlin Editorial Board College, and the Puffin Foundation, this interdisciplinary Peter N. Carroll • Gina Herrmann institute will allow 20 Ohio high-school faculty in social Fraser Ottanelli studies, Spanish, and English language arts to spend a Book Review Editor week at Oberlin College working with primary sources, Shirley Mangini learning about the war in Spain and its impact on Art Director-Graphic Designer Ohioans—including David McKelvy White (son of a for- Richard Bermack mer Ohio governor), Salaria Kea (an African-American nurse), and Carl Geiser (who died last year). The program Editorial Assistance Nancy Van Zwalenburg will help teachers develop materials to use in their class- rooms. The resulting lesson plans will also be posted on Submission of Manuscripts the ALBA website. The institute will be held in Oberlin on Please send manuscripts by E-mail or on disk. June 13-18, 2010. Interested teachers should contact the E-mail: [email protected] institute director, Sebastiaan Faber, at [email protected]. ALBA’s First Activist Award to Honor Amy Goodman at Annual Reunion

he 74th Anniversary Reunion of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, May 2, 2010, will feature broadcast Tjournalist Amy Goodman, host of the syndicated program Democracy Now!, who will receive the first annual ALBA Activist Award. This year’s event will be held at the auditorium of the Museo del Barrio at 104th Street and 5th Avenue at 4:30 pm, Sunday, May 2. ORDER TICKETS ON LINE: go to www.alba-valb.org and click on “NEW YORK REUNION 2010.” In presenting the Activist Award to Amy Goodman, a news journalist famous for challenging mainstream media in the coverage of domestic and international events, ALBA is honoring the tradition of the volunteers and veterans of the Lincoln Brigade who went to Spain in defiance of U.S. government policy and remained lifelong activists for a variety of progressive causes. Goodman’s news coverage reflects both that international perspective and a resourceful activism against bland media reportage. The reunion event will also feature a visual presentation exploring newly discovered aspects of internationalism during the Spanish Civil War and a musical program created by Bruce Barthol. Seating is limited. Buy your tickets now! And send a contribution, too! For more information, write [email protected] or call (212) 674-5398. Vet Mattson Honored in Home Town By Matti Mattson and Georgia Wever Mattson recalled the question he has been asked more atti Mattson received a standing ovation after than any other: “Why did you go to Spain?” His reply: addressing the graduates of Fitchburg State “Why didn’t more people go to Spain?” MCollege in his hometown in Massachusetts on Mattson went on to describe the world struggle against January 29, 2010. College President Robert V. Antonucci fascism in the 1930’s, the progressive program of the presented the President’s Medal to the veteran of the elected government of Spain, and the failure of democratic Abraham Lincoln Brigade before more than 200 new grad- countries to defend Spain. He called on students to make uates, family, and community. an effort to investigate the history of the International The attentive audience heard Mattson recall his early Brigades, because the full story is omitted from most days in Fitchburg, where he learned the printing trade that curricula. served him the rest of his life, and remember the three President Antonucci praised Mattson for his Fitchburg buddies who volunteered for the International willingness to share his story, because it was “an Brigades with him. inspiration to all of us.” A voice called out from the bleachers, “And are you Continued on page 5 still a Red Sox fan?” Mattson voiced a strong “YES.” March 2010 THE VOLUNTEER 3 The War Before the Lights Went Out An Interview with Helen Graham

Editor’s Note: British historian in January, she sat down to discuss explain the world in binary terms. Helen Graham is a visiting scholar of her life-long fascination with the “I am interested in history because Spanish Civil War studies at New York war, Spain’s attempts at “recovering” it is the ultimate antidote to any University’s King Juan Carlos I Center for its historical memory, and the kind of oversimplification. As soon spring 2010. skewed way in which the war is still as somebody says, ‘That is always By Sebastiaan Faber and James viewed by many U.S. scholars and the way this should be,’ you can say, D. Fernández intellectuals. Some excerpts follow; ‘Ah, but it wasn’t that way in X time.’ elling big stories through the full interview, as well as an eight- In that sense, history is the perfect individual human lives minute video clip, can be found in the immunization against thinking in “Tis a very powerful way new online edition of The Volunteer, at binaries and simplistic categories. of doing history. I am still very www.albavolunteer.org. “In the Very Short Introduction, for interested in theory, but I think that example, I was very keen to talk about Magic Territory human lives—although obviously Communism as a social movement. you have to pick the right lives—are Graham has spent more than two The general public, even students in the end more complex than any decades studying the Spanish Civil today, buy into the ridiculous notion theory.” Speaking is Helen Graham War in all its dimensions, but she that Communism amounted to a (born in Liverpool, 1959), one of the has been particularly fascinated with kind of collective brainwashing. They most prominent English-speaking the reasons behind the Republican don’t seem to understand—and this historians of 20th century Spain today. defeat. The topic gripped her from the has become worse after 1989—that She is the author of, among other beginning. “The Spanish Civil War it was not just about ideology. In the books, The Popular Front in Europe is without doubt the reason I decided European context particularly, you (1988), The Spanish Republic at War to become an historian. I distinctly really have to start from the idea (2003), and the bestselling The Spanish remember being overwhelmed by that Communism was a mass social Civil War: A Very Short Introduction the fact that the Republic hadn’t movement that embraced millions of (2005), a concise essay “that took me won. How could that possibly be? people, and that was about the whole nine months to write and 20 years to Naturally you can’t win the war for of their lives. Its significance was prepare.” Together with ALBA board the Republicans. But you can very cultural as well as political.” member Jo Labanyi, she is also editor usefully spend your life explaining in Living with Defeat of the seminal Spanish Cultural Studies: great, complex detail exactly why they An Introduction (1995). didn’t. The Spanish Civil War was, in Graham’s new book explores the Graham’s new book in progress a sense, the war before the lights went ways in which individual participants weaves together biographies of out—the war that could have changed in the war learned—or not—to live four individual participants in the the course of European and world with defeat. “If you had to put it in a war, including Bill Aalto, a Finnish- history if power actors had behaved grandiose way, I guess it is about find- American member of the Lincoln in different ways. And it was such a ing an ethic after destruction. It’s a bit Battalion who, in addition to being a transformational site, culturally, for so like dealing with the Holocaust, which Communist, also happened to be gay. many different kinds of people, that it people want to explain into submis- Graham, a professor of Spanish his- is really a bit of magic territory.” sion, with the idea that it’s all going to tory at Royal Holloway (University Graham approaches the be alright: you assimilate defeat and of London), currently holds the King past with a great deal of respect, move on. But there are some experi- Juan Carlos I of Spain Chair at New sympathy, and nuance, taking into ences that cannot really be assimilated York University. On a Sunday evening consideration everything from the or explained away like that. And I psychology of political leaders to think that the Spanish Civil War, like Sebastiaan Faber and James Fernández the evolution of class and gender the Holocaust, is one of those. You just are members of ALBA’s executive committee. relations. She categorically refuses have to find a way to live with the neg- to succumb to the temptation to atives. Writing these four lives is

4 THE VOLUNTEER Marach 2010 The War Before the Lights Went Out An Interview with Helen Graham

therefore something of a philosophical effect. Making the transition to history. My big bugbear with people pursuit as well. It is a way of talking democracy—coming through and out like Ron Radosh and others is that about how people live with a world the other end—means coming to a they don’t know anything about the that is not perfect, that’s very different point when you understand that we Spanish Civil War. Theirs is basically from the one that they wanted to all don’t have to agree; that although an imperialist take on the conflict. For create.” we may see the past differently, it will them, Spain doesn’t exist until the Seventy years on, the Spanish all be alright.” great powers inscribe a meaning on Civil War remains as controversial as the face of Spain. This is clearly going Getting the Lincolns ever. In Spain, the grassroots call for to annoy anybody who has spent the “recovery of historical memory” of While she respects and admires 20-odd years of their life working on the past decade has put the war and her Spanish colleagues, Graham has all of the other debates and issues that the Francoist repression front and cen- little patience for American scholars were actually there in Spain to start ter of public discussion, generating a who approach the Spanish war from a with.” flood of publications. Graham thinks narrowly U.S. perspective. “In a U.S. For the full interview with Helen this has been a necessary process. context, the Spanish Civil War Graham, see the new online edition of “The whole explosion in the Spanish punches above its weight because it The Volunteer at www.albavolunteer. public sphere of historical memory—it really is not about the Spanish Civil org, along with a video and a podcast should be really historical memories, War at all—in the end, it is always of a talk by Graham on the International in the plural—is obviously part of the about getting the Lincolns. And Brigades and other materials. democratic transition. What happened therefore it is about post-1945 American between the late 1970s and 1982 was a superstructural transition from a dic- tatorship to a parliamentary regime. Matti Continued from page 3 But because of the particular way the transition was negotiated from the top of the harassment of Lincoln veterans down, there was a complete block on by the U.S.military. See www. actually talking about what had gone fitchburgpride.com. on in the war and under Franco. Of Responding to a suggestion that course this partly happened for rea- he wear the bright medallion on his sons of stability and because of the approaching 94th birthday, Mattson position of the army. But in the end it remarked, “Why, I’ll wear it every day wasn’t a terribly democratic process.” in Brooklyn!” The Spanish Right has been Mattson was joined by his sharply critical of the so-called daughter, Ilona Mattson, of Maine, memory boom, warning that nephew Robert Mattson, and the “opening old wounds” can be a editor of the former Finnish dangerous thing. Graham thinks newspaper Raivaaja, Jonathan differently. “The whole notion that Ratila. He was also joined by Bill Spain as a country has to agree on one Gilson, vice-president of NYC Chapter Photo by Robert Mattson specific version of the past is part of 34 of Veterans for Peace, of which the Francoist legacy. The idea that if Mattson was featured in The Mattson is a honorary member (along we all don’t have a single view of the Fitchburg Pride weekly of January 29. with all other Lincoln veterans), and past it’s going to be chaos come again, In the interview, he described Georgia Wever, representing Activists we’re going to have another civil war, completing his training as an Army Forever! Friends & Family of the and we’re all going to hell in a Air Force pilot during World War II Abraham Lincoln Brigade. bucket—that’s in itself also a Franco only to be denied a commission, a part

March 2010 THE VOLUNTEER 5 Mystery Photo: Gift to Obama Puts ALBA in the Spotlight By James D. Fernández & a challenge we could not pass up. Sebastiaan Faber living as political exiles. They were Press accounts were intriguing in antifascists who thought that fighting ho is the young black their combination of precise detail in Spain would help them prepare International Brigadier in and historical inaccuracy. Some for revolution in their own country. Wdoughboy gear whose por- journalists claimed to know that the (As it turned out, at least one Cuban trait the Spanish government hopes to man in the photo was from Alabama veteran from the Spanish Civil War give to Barack Obama? and had died at Brunete. Other would be there in 1959 with Fidel The photo appeared in the initial guesses—Milt Herndon, Paul and Che—who themselves had Spanish press in November 2009, Williams, John Hunter—could quickly been trained in Mexico by Alberto where the man was described as be dismissed. Two months of dogged Bayo, a former officer of the Spanish an unidentified African-American detective work later, we know when Republican army.) The baptism by fire member of the Abraham Lincoln and where the photo was taken; when, on Spanish soil for the Guiteras group Brigade. The photographer is the on what ship, and in whose company was the Jarama Battle in February Catalan Agustí Centelles (1909- the man left for Europe; we have even 1937, which decimated the ranks of the 1985), whose archive has just been discovered his nickname. But we still first division. Among the dead was purchased by the government in don’t know who he is. Rodolfo de Armas, the founder and Madrid, to be included in the national What we do know is that he was charismatic leader of the Cuban unit. Civil War archive in Salamanca. (The likely not one of the African-American The discovery that “our man” may purchase shocked many Catalans, volunteers, but rather a Cuban exile have been Cuban posed a dilemma. If who consider Centelles part of their from New York. we were right, the whole motivation cultural patrimony, and angered them The first hint was an easy one. for the issue’s newsworthiness—the to no end.) Soon after the Centelles photo was link with Obama—would be gone. As Centelles’ two sons handed published, we discovered a second (For a Socialist prime minister from over their father’s work, they made image of the same man, taken on the Spain to give the U.S. president an an unusual request: Would Spain’s same day, in a catalog of an earlier image of an Afro-Cuban Communist Prime Minister be willing to give Centelles exhibit. In this other image would be very bad politics and a print of this particular photo to we see a frontal shot of the volunteer diplomacy indeed.) On the other hand, President Obama on his next visit in the same outfit, holding a banner our research had begun uncovering to Spain, by way of tribute to the that reads in Spanish, “First American things that were new and interesting more than 100 African Americans in Battalion / A. Lincoln / Centuria in their own right. the Abraham Lincoln Brigade? The Antonio Guiteras / International The first thing we realized is how government agreed. The Centelles Brigade.” In fact, the Guiteras unit little we knew of the Cuban story. The brothers then called on the rest of the was one of the three sections making experiences of the Cuban volunteers world to help them identify the man up the first infantry company of the who fought in Spain—more than in the photo, so they could contact his Lincoln Battalion, which itself became 1,000, making them the largest family. When the item was picked up part of the Fifteenth International contingent from Latin America—and by British journalist Giles Tremlett Brigade of the Spanish Republican especially of the sizable group that of The Guardian, it began making the army, formed in late January 1937. had come from the United States, had global rounds and even ended up as a Named after the Cuban politician remained buried in the archives and segment on CNN, which interviewed and revolutionary Antonio Guiteras had not entered the conventional ALBA’s James D. Fernández on (1906-1935), the Centuria included narrative of American participation in December 23. about a hundred Cuban soldiers. the Spanish Civil War. Yet the exiled Although the Centelles family Many of them had left from the Cubans and their organizations, such did not contact ALBA directly, it was United States, where they had been as the Club Julio Antonio Mella and

6 THE VOLUNTEER Marach 2010 the Club José Martí, constituted an important presence among the radical left in New York and played a key role in the recruitment effort of volunteers for Spain. Once on the battlefield, the Cubans distinguished themselves militarily as well. The man in the Centelles picture is clearly dressed in the doughboy gear that the first groups of U.S. volunteers purchased at New York army-and-navy stores. As we analyzed the Centelles shots and scoured the archives, microfilm, libraries, and digitized U.S. and Spanish newspapers for related images and texts, we could pinpoint the exact date the photo was taken. This in turn allowed us to deduce on what ship our man must have arrived. In a second big scoop, we recognized our man in two group Photo courtesy of Centro Documental de la Memoria Histórica, España, colección photos of passengers on this ship, Agustí Centelles i Ossó. allowing us to identify him as the black Cuban soldier whom John Tisa, of linking the face and nickname to a American battalion after Abraham in his memoir of the war, refers to as particular volunteer. As of this Lincoln may have been made several “Cuba Hermosa”—literally, beautiful writing, he could be any one of a weeks earlier than has long been Cuba: group of five. assumed. Meanwhile, the treasure About 5 feet 8, boyish In the end, of course, who he was hunt has yielded dozens of other looking, magnificently propor- is not that significant —nor, for that gems, ranging from diaries of fellow tioned, erect, and strong, he matter, which nation issued his volunteers on the Cuban’s ship to is beautifully jet black, with a mouthful of pearls for teeth passport. National identities were of revealing anecdotes of Cuban and and black, glistening eyes that little importance in the Spanish Civil American soldiers that had been are always smiling. Like other War. The almost 40,000 volunteers buried in the Moscow archives. As the Cubans a refugee from Batista, resisted being singled out as heroes; participants in the ALBA Teachers he is anxious to go back to his they had joined an international, Institutes well know, a couple of days home, family, and a free Cuba. multi-ethnic and multi-racial coalition in the archives is enough to learn that He took the death of Rodolfo de Armas very hard. because they believed fascism was a the story of the Lincoln Brigade is too global threat that demanded rich and complex to capture in a single (Cuba Hermosa, it turns out, is a line international solidarity, and they went over-arching narrative. Much remains in a popular political song of the time, to Spain despite the fact that many to be written. composed in 1932 by Eliseo Grenet, foreign governments opted for Please join us at the 74th Annual who soon after went into exile himself. non-intervention. Reunion of the Veterans of the His brother was in Spain when the That said, the search for this man’s Abraham Lincoln Brigade for a visual war broke out and fought with the identity has turned up surprising presentation of the search for the Republic.) insights, not only about the key role Centelles volunteer, preceding a talk Despite generous help from played by New York’s Cubans. We by Amy Goodman. May 2, at 4:30 pm, friends in Cuba and elsewhere, it has have found indications, for instance, at the Museo del Barrio in New York proven difficult to take the final step that the decision to name the (104th St. and 5th Ave).

March 2010 THE VOLUNTEER 7 Henri Cartier-Bresson Footage Found in ALBA Archive By Juan Salas n late summer 1937, former editor of the journal New Theater, Herbert IKline, traveled to Spain with French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson and cameraman Jacques Lemare to shoot a documentary about the sani- tary services of the American Medical Bureau, an organization created in the United States to aid Spanish Jacques Lemare, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Herbert Kline. democracy. The previous spring, Kline in New York City in 1935 and had and another one on the “L.W. Boys had been in Madrid working as been assistant director to Jean Renoir [Lincoln-Washington battalion].” a journalist for EAR, the Spanish in several movies in 1936 and 1937. He At the time Pierre Assouline government’s English language had decided to become a film director wrote his biography of Henri Cartier- shortwave radio broadcasting station. and leave behind his career as a pho- Bresson in 1999, the filmmakers had He had been approached by the tographer. Frontier Films knew Kline forgotten ever having shot With The Hungarian photographer Gerza had the contacts needed in Spain to Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain. Karpathi to write a script for Dr. produce the film, and Cartier-Bresson Although the documentary is men- Norman Bethune to create a film on had the experience, although limited, tioned in several filmographies of the the work of his Blood Transfusion to direct the movie. Return to Life Spanish Civil War, all assumed the Institute in Spain. Neither Karpathi would be his first film. film was lost. nor Kline had ever made a movie, but After working on a script in Paris, During my research on the photo- they became filmmakers overnight the newly appointed documentarians graphs taken by the Photographic Unit to produce the footage that was later went to Madrid to shoot, and later to of the XV International Brigade, I edited as Heart of Spain. the hospital of the international bri- found several images of the three film- Kline returned to New York City gades, Villa Paz, in Saelices, near the makers shooting in Quinto with their and gave the film to his friends Paul Spanish capital. They traveled to the 35mm Eyemo movie cameras. The Strand and Leo Hurwitz of Frontier Valencian coast to film the recovery photographs show the filmmakers in Films, who, with additional footage of wounded volunteers in the villas action, documenting scenes that match from newsreels and discards from of Benicassim. They took two days those shown on a short film that the Joris Ivens’ Spanish Earth, created the off from the shooting to visit the office of the Veterans of the Lincoln documentary. When the film was Abraham Lincoln Brigade near the Brigade has had for decades. It is released in September 1937, Kline was front to document its actions in Spain. indeed the lost documentary that the already in Spain, this time with a com- The diaries of Robert Merriman, Daily Worker announced on May 20, mission from the American Medical Chief of Staff of the Brigade, place the 1938, as showing “intimate scenes of Bureau to collaborate with Henri filmmakers in Quinto on the Aragon the American volunteers in the war Cartier-Bresson on a second film pro- front on October 28, 1937, where the against fascism.” duced by Frontier Films. Americans were stationed after the With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Cartier-Bresson had studied docu- fight for Fuentes de Ebro, just before Spain narrates the life of Americans in mentary filmmaking with Paul Strand moving to Ambite, near Madrid. Spain from the time they trained near Merriman reports that they were the front, waiting to be mobilized, to Juan Salas is a scholar of visual studies shooting two movies, one “sanitary and an independent curator of the time they saw action, were photography. film” on the medical aid to Spain, wounded, and were sent to hospitals.

8 THE VOLUNTEER Marach 2010 Rare Documentary Film Saved By Alice Moscoso exhaustive investigation began to A year ago, film researcher Juan locate better elements from which to Salas made the startling discovery do preservation. that a 16mm print of documentary To find any existing film ele- footage in the ALBA Collection of ments and information useful for the Tamiment Library was the long the preservation work, repositories lost film made by Henri Cartier- thought most likely to have a con- Bresson during the Spanish Civil nection to the film were contacted, secured in the form of a donation of War, titled With the Abraham Lincoln including the Henri Cartier-Bresson work by a New York lab, Cineric, a Brigade in Spain. The discovery Foundation in Paris and the sponsor of the Seventh Orphan Film prompted the decision to preserve it. Filmoteca Española in Madrid, as Symposium, where the film will This collaborative effort was carried well as a wider selection of interna- screen in April 2010. on by the Barbara Goldsmith tional archives and organizations. The lab work consisted of mak- Preservation and Conservation After months of research, no camera ing a 35mm duplicate negative using Department at NYU Libraries. original negative was discovered. an optical printer that re-photo- Preserving a motion picture film However, additional prints were graphs the 16mm print onto 35mm means creating new film elements found. Upon inspection and com- film. From that negative, a new from original existing ones in an parison of these prints (of varying 35mm print was struck. Because the effort to prolong its life and make it lengths and quality), the best print film is silent, there was no sound to as widely available as possible. to use for the preservation work was preserve. The decision was made to Every effort is made to be faithful to identified. blow up the 16mm print to 35mm the visual quality and content of the One of the challenges in preser- because that was the original format original film, which are determining vation is not to rush this process of the film. Additionally, given the factors in the preservation strategy. until all possible existing elements preponderance of 35mm projection The duplication process used in can be located and to determine facilities, this choice will increase film-to-film preservation always when to stop the research if the origi- the film’s future screening opportu- implies generation loss and there- nal camera negative remains nities. Finally, a transfer of the fore an alteration of the image undiscovered. This can be difficult to 35mm film to Digital Betacam and quality. The closer to the original achieve when there are specific dead- DVDs will also facilitate wider elements one is able to work, the lines to meet, such as an opportunity access possibilities. higher the image quality. The sur- to show the film, which, in turn, can viving print was in poor physical lead to funding to carry out the pres- Alice Moscoso is the Moving Image condition, multiple generations ervation work, as was the case with Preservation Specialist at the NYU away from the original negative, the Henri Cartier-Bresson film. The Libraries. and could not be projected. An funding for preservation was

It features close-ups of the volunteers, Union, and an unlikely soccer game in other small venues. the nurses who treated them, and the Benicassim. The photographs of the shooting locals they met while recovering from The film was used in the United at Quinto help clarify the role of the their wounds. There are never-before- States to raise funds to bring three filmmakers during the shooting seen scenes of Madrid during the fall American volunteers back home. of both Return to Life and With the of 1937, the first of only two showers Although shot in 35mm, it was distrib- Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain and the internationals ever took in Spain, uted around the country in 16mm to confirm what Kline had declared in courtesy of the French Steel Workers be shown in union halls, clubs, and Continued on page 11

March 2010 THE VOLUNTEER 9 Flamenco Program Honors the Vets

By Fredda Weiss Brigade, based on the poem “To the change unexpectedly, often separated and Jeanne Houck International Soldier Fallen in Spain,” by frozen moments of incredible he Madrid-based Flamenco by Miguel Hernandez. tension. It is, alternately, an expression group, Noche Flamenca, cele- “ALBA” begins with a passionate of the fury of war, courage, the resolve Tbrated its 16th season in New lament expressed by two guitars and of freedom fighters, and the grief of a York with a featured piece on the two male voices, Manuel Gago (tenor) nation. Packed houses respond to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade last January. and Miguel Rosendo (baritone). The troupe’s intensity with calls of “Ole” The small ensemble (3 guitarists, 2 dancers enter the low-lit stage led throughout the performance and, at singers, and 4 dancers) espouses a by Soledad Barrio, the sole female the conclusion, a standing ovation! pure, authentic form of Flamenco performer. As she kneels beside the A solo by guitarist Jesus Torres, known to very few outside of the spot (or perhaps a grave) where a who has been with the company for Iberian Peninsula. Their mission is to Brigader has fallen, canes are silently many years, is a perfect, quiet and educate audiences worldwide to this passed from one dancer to another contemplative antidote to “ALBA.” very passionate and non-commercial down the line of grieving figures until In a magical moment, guitarists form, which has its roots in 15th cen- each holds one, straight and firm, on Salva de Maria and Eugenio Iglesias tury Andalusia. the cold ground. Suddenly, they strike enter upstage and sit in the shadows, Martin Santangelo, the artistic the floor in unison, and the dancers listening with the audience. Then Mr. director of Noche Flamenca, calls the explode into action. The canes’ violent Torres rises to leave, his hands stilled, Flamenco form “a primal scream.” The syncopations are echoed by the but the music mysteriously continues. music evolved against the background dancers’ traditional footwork. It is a seamless transition between of an epic tragedy in Spanish history: In a recent interview for The the guitarists, which introduces the the expulsion of the Moors from Volunteer, Santangelo described the next piece, a slow, beautiful and Granada and the ensuing persecution, symbolism of the canes: “They are sensual dance of love choreographed humiliation, and slaughter of Spanish the bones of the fallen, Jews, Arabs, and Gypsies that and as the Hernandez followed. Flamenco evolved as the poem ends ‘around TO THE INTERNATIONAL SOLDIER FALLEN IN SPAIN physical and musical expression of your bones, the olive By Miguel Hernandez this horror. As historian Felix Grande groves will grow, writes: “If we do not relate the music unfolding their iron If there are men who contain a soul without frontiers . . . to brutality, repression, hunger, roots in the ground, A brow scattered with universal hair fear, menace, inferiority, resistance embracing men Covered with horizons, ships, and mountain chains, and secrecy, then we shall not find universally, faithfully.’” With sand and with snow, then you are one of those. the reality of cante flamenco . . . it is a As the dancers storm of exasperation and grief.” move with increasing Fatherlands called to you with all their banners, This year Santangelo and Soledad speed and intensity, So that your breath filled with beautiful movements. Barrio, his wife, co-founder, and star intersecting and You wanted to quench the thirst of panthers of the troupe, recognize the resonance interacting in And fluttered full against their abuses. of this period with the terror of the individual percussive Spanish Civil War and the 40 years rhythms, their feet, With a taste of all suns and seas, of Franco’s brutal dictatorship. The the guitars, and the Spain beckons you because in her you realize featured piece in their program, voices combine to your majesty like a tree that embraces a continent. “ALBA,” is a riveting, emotional sound like bullets Around your bones, the olive groves will grow, tribute to the Abraham Lincoln exploding and bodies Unfolding their iron roots in the ground, falling. The emotional Embracing men universally, faithfully. Fredda Weiss is Vice Chair of ALBA; moments topple over Jeanne Houck is Executive Director. one another. Moods

10 THE VOLUNTEER Marach 2010 Cartier-Bresson Footage Continued from page 9 the 1970s about the shooting: “The still photographer to explore the visual ideas were mostly Cartier- possibilities of the moving pic- Bresson’s.” While Kline acted as tures, placing himself behind the producer, securing the contacts camera. Adding a temporal dimen- needed to shoot both with the sion to portraits of the volunteers Brigade and at the hospitals, and the crab dolly shots he used in Cartier-Bresson and Lemare han- several sequences, Cartier-Bresson dled the cameras to fulfill the contributed his sensitivity as a visual narrative that Cartier- photographer to a medium that he Bresson had in mind. ultimately would abandon after by Soledad Barrio and performed The editing of Return to Life was World War II, but that witnessed by her and Noe Barroso. Two more done in Paris by Laura Séjour, work- the transition between his photo- virtuoso dance solos, performed ing closely with Cartier-Bresson. graphic work from the early 1930s, with enormous energy, elegance, and The editing of the different influenced by the surrealists, and an attitude of defiance by Antonio sequences of With the Abraham his later work, imbued with a Jimenez and Juan Ogalla, complete the Lincoln Brigade probably happened humanism he embraced during the first part of the program. simultaneously. The production of Spanish Civil War in contact with The three pieces after the the intertitles, aimed at an the Spanish people he encountered. intermission are just as powerful as American audience, might have With the Abraham Lincoln those that come before. Each dancer been done either in Paris, with the Brigade in Spain shows the impact is featured in equal measure with input of Kline, who was familiar of the documentary work of Luis Soledad Barrio’s exquisite solo piece, with some of the members of the Buñuel and the images that his eagerly awaited by the adoring crowd. Brigade, or back in the United States photographer friend Eli Lotar shot The standing ovations demand a at Frontier Films. Kline declared as cinematographer in Las Hurdes. short encore, and the audiences leave that although Laura Séjour was the Land without Bread (1932), but the theater nearly as energized and editor of Return to Life, Cartier- released in France only months exhausted as the performers. Bresson should be fully credited for before Cartier-Bresson left Paris to Many in the audience for the the editorial decisions of the movie, shoot in Spain. The appearance of three-week run were from the a statement we can extend to the With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in ALBA community. On the last day editing of With the Lincoln Brigade in Spain is an extremely interesting of performance in New York City, Spain, since some of the scenes that transitional episode in the career of Abraham Lincoln volunteer Matti appeared in it were shot simultane- the French photographer and offers Mattson attended. Mr. Santangelo ously with the shooting of materials further evidence of the intertwining came out before the performance for the other film. of photography and documentary of “ALBA” to introduce Mattson Unscripted and apparently cinema during the Spanish Civil to the audience. Amidst heads free from the constraints of hav- war, while showing unique and turning, gasps of surprised delight, ing to fulfill a formal commission, beautiful images of the American and applause from the audience, With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in volunteers in Spain. Santangelo noted that because of Spain seems to have allowed the Mattson and those like him who joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the International Brigade, “There on to Philadelphia, Montreal, and newsletter will keep track of Noche is a freedom in Spain. The Brigaders Toronto, where they received Flamenca’s world tour and will planted a seed of a liberty that is enthusiastic responses. For their tour announce its return to New York later extraordinary.” schedule in other cities, visit www. this year. After New York, the troupe went nocheflamenca.com. The ALBA

March 2010 THE VOLUNTEER 11 Added to Memory’s Roster

Carl Fredrick Geiser numerous patents for fuel gauges and, (1910–2009) as a research director, supervised testing of a component used in the Carl Geiser, a key political leader first lunar mission. He served briefly in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and as president of Local 1227 of the author of a pioneering book, Prisoners United Electrical Radio and Machine of the Good Fight, which included his Workers of America. Carl and Sylvia own experiences during the Spanish had two boys, Jim and Pete, before Civil War, died November 28 in divorcing in 1946. With his second Corvallis, Oregon. wife, Doris, he had three children, He was born in Orrville, Ohio, on Linda, David and Gary. Carl studied December 10, 1910, the oldest of six psychology at Columbia University, children. His father, a farmer, died in graduating in 1963. the influenza epidemic at the end of During the 1970s, Carl turned his World War I, and his mother a year later Photo by Carla Nordstrom. attention once more to Spain and of tuberculosis. Carl received his enrolled in a memoir-writing class. primary education in a one-room National Committee of the YCL. The essay he wrote on a Christmas schoolhouse while helping to tend the In April 1937, Carl boarded the S.S. concert held in San Pedro de Cardeña family’s 16-acre farm. After high school, Georgia to join the International was published in The New York Times. he enrolled in the YMCA School of Brigades in defense of the Spanish Its positive reception provided the Technology (later Fenn College, now Republic. He served as an ammunition impetus for Carl’s study of his POW Ohio State University) in Cleveland, carrier at Brunete, saw action at Quinto, experience. majoring in electrical engineering. and advanced to the rank of lieutenant. With the assistance of fellow In 1932, Carl was part of the first Following the battle of Belchite, Carl prisoner Robert Steck, Geiser amassed National Student Federation mission was promoted to Political Commissar biographical information on the 120 to travel to the Soviet Union. This visit and charged with the organization of a Americans incarcerated in Spanish had a decisive influence on his training school for commissars at prisons. He also corresponded with political thinking. Impressed by the Tarazona. Wounded at Fuentes de over 150 veterans worldwide to solicit Soviet system and the tenets of Ebro, he returned to the front as their reminiscences and traveled to socialism, Carl joined the Young Commissar of the Mackenzie-Papineau archives in the United States and Communist League and became an battalion, but he was captured by Europe to conduct research. Ring active force in the American Student fascist forces on April 1, 1938. Narrowly Lardner, Jr., and members of VALB, Union, serving as a delegate to the escaping execution in front of a firing eager to see the project to fruition, First Student Congress Against War squad, he was interned at San Pedro de provided financial support. Five years and Fascism. It was there that he met Cardeña, along with over 650 of research and writing culminated in his future wife Sylvia, a teacher and International Brigades prisoners. the publication of Prisoners of the Good organizer who shared his political Through the efforts of the Friends of Fight in 1986. fervor. They moved to New York, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the Geiser moved with his daughter where they were absorbed into a U.S. State Department, Carl and a and family to Corvallis in 1993, where dynamic culture of political activism group of 71 Americans were released he became actively engaged in the and organizing. Carl wrote press in April 1939. Democratic Party, the Green Party, releases and edited International Carl returned to New York City the Committees for Correspondence, Labor Defense bulletins, organized for and secured an engineering position and the social action committee of the League against War and Fascism, with a manufacturer of aeronautic the Unitarian Fellowship, and was and in 1936 was elected to the equipment. Eventually he filed Continued on page 13

12 THE VOLUNTEER Marach 2010 Book Reviews

daughters. He would soon be arrested Max Aub’s Civil War on false charges from an anti-Semitic, Max Aub, Field of Honour, translated anti-Communist snitch. The text by Gerald Martin, with an introduction Honour is a self-contained coming- retains some of the urgency and by Ronald Fraser. London, Verso, 2009. of-age narrative that covers the final claustrophobia of the moment. moments of the Primo de Rivera The novel is not precisely an easy Sebastiaan Faber dictatorship and the five years of read. “The book has been a challenge ax Aub was a novelist and the Second Republic, which was for the translator,” Gerald Martin playwright of remarkable proclaimed in April 1931. The book writes in his prefatory note, “and will Moriginality who spent his life ends with 30 breathless pages be a challenge to the reader; but the chronicling the war that tore his coun- covering the heady and chaotic first rewards are great.” He is right on both try apart and catapulted him into day of the war in Barcelona. counts. The novel is well edited, with exile. As the cultural attaché for the The main character of the book, a brief preface by the historian Ronald Spanish embassy in Paris and co-orga- Rafael López Serrador, is an anti-hero Fraser (author of Blood of Spain), an nizer of the Spanish Pavilion at the of sorts, a pícaro or scoundrel who informative translator’s note, a 1937 World Fair, it was Aub who com- relies on his wit to survive, a poor chronology, and lists of historical missioned Picasso to paint the mural and ignorant kid from a small town characters and organizations. that would become Guernica. Following For a full-length review of this book, the Republic’s defeat, he spent three see the Volunteer’s online edition at www. years in French concentration camps albavolunteer.org. before managing to escape to Mexico, where he died 30 years later. The centerpiece of Aub’s extensive Memory’s Roster production is El Laberinto Mágico (The Continued from page 12 Magical Labyrinth)—five novels, a film script and some 40 short stories that a frequent visitor to the Newman weave a sprawling epic tapestry of the House. During this period he became war in which hundreds of characters, concerned about environmental both historical and fictional, try des- issues and wrote a number of perately to make sense of their violent articles entitled “As I See It,” which and chaotic times. The Laberinto is rec- were published in regional media. ognized by many, including ALBA At the age of 93, “Perspectives and board member Antonio Muñoz Resources: The Task My Generation Molina, as one of the most stunning Faced” was published in a special literary renditions of the war in the edition of Science and Society. Spanish language. Yet for many years Carl will be fondly remembered none of it was available in English. for his appreciation of those around Now, almost 40 years after Aub’s on the border between Catalonia and him, for his faith in education and death, Verso has published Field of Aragon who decides to try and make respect for all people regardless of Honour, the English translation of something of his life. creed or origin, and for his Campo cerrado, the Labyrinth’s first Aub wrote this novel in 1939, commitment to a just and peaceful novel, published in 1943. Field of during the first precarious months of world. Memorial services are planned exile, holed up in a Paris attic room, for spring 2010. Sebastiaan Faber teaches Spanish literature at Oberlin College. separated from his wife and —Linda Geiser

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NYC’s 74th Reunion of the Volunteers of Liberty Lincoln Brigade’s “Legacy of Activism” Award to Honor Amy Goodman, acclaimed broadcast journalist, host of Democracy Now! May 2, 4:30 pm Museo del Barrio, 104th Street and 5th Avenue Order tickets online at www.alba-valb.org by clicking on “NEW YORK REUNION 2010” For information, write [email protected] or call (212) 674-5398. SF Bay Area Reunion To be announced. For information go to www.alba-valb.org. Other Spring Events March 9, 8 pm: Orphan Film Festival , NYC Henri Cartier-Bresson’s lost documentary, With the Lincoln Brigade in Spain (1938) IFC Center, 323 Sixth Avenue at West Third Street, (212) 924-7771 For tickets go to http://www.ifccenter.com/films/best-of-the-orphan-film-symposium-third-edition/. April 14, 7 pm: Screening & Roundtable To My Son in Spain: Finnish Americans in the Spanish Civil War The King Juan Carlos I Center, 53 Washington Square South, NY Co-sponosored by ALBA and the King Juan Carlos Center Free to the public. Reception to follow. April & May: Seattle Series Lives, History, Memory: The Spanish Civil War Seventy Years After University of Washington, Gowen Hall Rm 201 For more information, call (206) 543-2022 April 27, 7 pm: Helen Graham, Professor at the University of London “Border Crossings: Thinking about the International Brigaders before and after Spain” May 25, 7 pm: Jordana Mendelson, Professor at NYU “History on Display: Context, Controversy, and Picasso’s Guernica” Film Series On Spanish Civil War. For details, go to www.albavolunteer.org or call (206) 543-2022.