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The Volunteer the Volunteer v2004-4.qxd 11/5/2004 2:36 PM Page 1 ...and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. TheThe VVolunteerolunteer ABRAHAM LINCOLN JOURNAL OF THE VETERANS OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE Vol. XXVI, No.4 December 2004 Student Show About Lincolns Wins First Prize in Illinois, page 3. Dispatch from Madrid, Flag Controversy in Argentina and the SCW, p. 11 Parade, p. 5-6 Benicàssim Honors Brigades, p. 11 Spain’s Wartime Prime Minister, p. 7 Saul Wellman film reviewed, p. 17 Harry Fisher’s WWII Letters, p. 9 v2004-4.qxd 11/5/2004 2:36 PM Page 2 Please continue sending An Appeal to Our Readers me The Volunteer Publishing The Volunteer is expensive—and Individual/Family $30.00 ❐ increasingly so. The cost of producing The Senior (over 65) and Student $20.00 ❐ Volunteer continues to rise. The publication is Library $40.00 ❐ now running a deficit that makes a nominal Veterans of the Spanish Civil War No Charge ❐ subscription fee necessary. Rest assured that we I would also like to send __ gift subscriptions @____ $_____ are not about to go out of business or suspend To publication. If you would like to continue receiv- Address ing The Volunteer, we ask that you fill out the form below and send it with your check made I would like to make an additional contribution to ALBA $_____ out to ALBA to: Enclosed is my check for TOTAL $_____ ALBA 799 Broadway, Room 227 Name New York, NY 10003 Mailing address Or you can subscribe by credit card in a safe and Telephone number secure way at our website, www.alba-valb.org. Email address Click on contributions. Thank you for your continued support in keep- ☛Please make checks payable to ALBA. ing the fine traditions of the Abraham Lincoln Send to 799 Broadway, Rm. 227, New York, NY 10003 Brigade a vital and living legacy! You can make contributions online at www.alba-valb.org. The Volunteer Journal of the Veterans of the Letters Abraham Lincoln Brigade an ALBA publication 799 Broadway, Rm. 227 Dear friends, New York, NY 10003 I am disappointed about the article written by Paul Preston in your last issue. This article does not reflect the (212) 674-5398 reality of Spain. King Juan Carlos is the continuity of Franco’s ideolo- Editorial Board gy by other means. As the regime needed foreign Peter Carroll • Leonard Levenson investments, they needed to soften the regime and of Gina Herrmann • Fraser Ottanelli course give it a superficial democratic face. The Abe Smorodin Constitution was a mere compromise between the post- Francoists and the weak real democrats. In a way to clean Book Review Editor the dictatorship, post-Francoists presented the Monarchy. Shirley Mangini Spain has become richer in the last 25 years, mainly Art Director-Graphic Designer because of the foreign investments and not because of the Richard Bermack policies of their governments. We also must add the large amounts of European funds that have gone to Spain. Editorial Assistance The real majority that rules the country are post- Nancy Van Zwalenburg Francoists or their descendants, except in the Basque Submission of Manuscripts Country and Catalonia. In these territories a Francoist Please send manuscripts by E-mail or on disk. party has never won any election. E-mail: [email protected] Letters continued on page 20 2 THE VOLUNTEER December 2004 v2004-4.qxd 11/5/2004 2:36 PM Page 3 CChichicagoago SStudentudentsts SSalutalutee thethe LincLincolnoln BrBrigadeigade New Show Planned Last year, Jamie O’Reilly, co-cre- ator of the musical performance “Passiones: Songs of the Spanish Civil War,” invited ALBA to collabo- rate with Chicago’s Free Street Theater group in producing a stu- dent performance based on songs and texts of the Spanish Civil War, as interpreted by contemporary students. As reported in The Volunteer (March 2004), the result was Jugar/Muerte (Play/Dead), a production by and for high school students that told the story of the Lincoln Brigade and focused on the moral choices that young people face in a world of war. Inspired by the performance, a class at Curie High School, taught by Sandy Meyer, adopted the topic for its project in the National History Day competition. [See Chicago history and drama students accompanying article.] The Curie By Sandy Meyer (with Hector students won first prize in their the Riveter, the Emmett Till murder, and, school, then in the northern Illinois Cambray, Nick Morales, Tony this past year, the Abraham Lincoln district, and finally in the state’s his- Torres, Curtis Jackson, and Brigade. But I’ll let my students, Hector tory fair, earning the right to Jackie Rodriguez) Cambray, Nick Morales, Tony Torres, represent Illinois in the final compe- Curtis Jackson, and Jackie Rodriguez, tell tition in Washington, D.C. At a I was born shortly after World War II you in their own words what they did. ceremony last May to honor the and was raised by leftist parents who took students’ achievement, the awards me to peace marches and civil rights We chose the Spanish Civil War as committee also paid tribute to events. I spent time with family friends our topic because we are very con- Lincoln vet Chuck Hall—not only like Chuck Hall, who told me about his cerned with the war in Iraq. We for enlisting in the fight against fas- time in Spain. These events played a huge discussed the causes of war and those cism, but also for his personal role in my becoming a radical student who waged war in the past. We exam- involvement with today’s students. leader in the sixties and later a high school ined tyrants from history, the biggest This year ALBA is supporting teacher who always tries to find opportu- of whom was Hitler. We also studied another version of Chicago’s Free nities for my students to learn about our the political careers of Mussolini, Street project, thanks to the contin- history. Five times in my teaching career Salazar, and Franco. We became uing commitment of Jamie O’Reilly that meant taking students through the extremely interested in Franco when and teachers like Sandy Meyer. In stages necessary to become competitors in we learned he was the first dictator to October, ALBA Chair Peter Carroll National History Day, with projects on fight against democratic ideas after joined a group of teachers at Curie the anti-Vietnam War movement, Rosie World War I. This gave Hitler’s ideas High School to explore the 2005 a new wave of popularity in program. ALBA, in turn, acknowl- Sandy Meyer has been a high school Germany. The liberal democratic par- edges the recent grant from the drama and history teacher for the ties were gaining power, and Hitler Puffin Foundation that makes this Chicago public schools since 1972. Continued on page 4 important work possible. THE VOLUNTEER December 2004 3 v2004-4.qxd 11/5/2004 2:36 PM Page 4 Students Continued from page 3 wanted it stopped. He used Franco’s to show our historical knowledge in a war as a blueprint for handling his passionate manner. Most importantly, opposition and he gave much sup- as history students, it reminds us of port to Franco. At this point, we the price that must be paid when our knew we wanted to do our project on principles, values, and beliefs are Franco’s war. opposed by what appear to be over- At the beginning of our research, whelming odds and forces. we watched a Free Street production of a play on the Spanish Civil War entitled Jugar/Muerte (Play/Dead). It deeply affected us and ignited our interest in learning about the war. We learned people can have all of their basic liberties taken away by force and be left with no recourse but to fight. We then met with Free Street actors who researched and wrote the play. And then we met Chuck Hall, a mem- ber of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, As great an experience as this was for who told us firsthand stories of his the kids, it meant so much to me (and his experiences during the Spanish Civil family and my family) to see Chuck finally War. These stories brought the learn- get the recognition he so deserved. The ing process to life. He loaned us standing ovation that he received at the videos of volunteers who were in Chicago Historical Society’s awards event Spain and we read several of their recognized him as an historical figure in memoirs. We continued to learn more his own right. We so often see the generals by reading books, as well as articles in get the accolades, but that day Charles The Volunteer: Journal of the Veterans of Hall was acknowledged as a true hero for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. living out his ideals. As a teacher, it is my We loved that the brave fighters greatest satisfaction to turn on new gener- of the ALB exchanged talk for action. ations to historical truths, as I see them. They picked up rifles and actively supported their ideas. And we loved having Chuck Hall finally honored, even though it was 50 years later at the Chicago Metro History Fair’s awards ceremony last spring, for his courage and his solidarity with the Spanish people in their encounters with the fascists in Spain. As history students, we learned a big lesson: sometimes we have to fight for our beliefs, no matter what we encounter along the way.
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