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Poems of the Spanish Civil “...and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” ABRAHAM LINCOLN TheThe VVolunteerolunteer JOURNAL OF THE VETERANS OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE Vol. XXIV, No. 3 September 2002 UncoveringUncovering thethe HiddenHidden PastPast Searching the Graves,, pagepage 1616 PHOTO BY ELOY ALONSO GONZALEZ that spans the period of the Great Depression through World War II. That’s us. That’s ALBA. Yet not a line, not a Letters word about the 2700 young Americans who left the safe shores of the United States to defend the Spanish Republic. Dear Volunteer: The book was enormously popular. I think ALBA could A SALUTE AND SOME UNSOLICITED SUGGESTIONS have pointed out this glaring omission, maybe even pro- FOR ALBA voked a dialogue with Brokaw. That’s a long shot but who Our readership is well aware of the great accomplish- knows? ments of ALBA in mounting a number of traveling Enough bitching. exhibitions, sponsoring annual events on both coasts, and Salud, Comrades! most importantly, enhancing and maintaining our Abe Smorodin archives. What troubles me is the lack of an aggressive response Dear Volunteer: to the steady stream of columns coming from the Radoshes It’s been a very interesting few months for me, and I’m and others of his ilk. anxious to tell readers of The Volunteer what’s been hap- I am not proposing that ALBA answer in kind. That pening. In late April and early May, Uli Kolbe—my good would be counterproductive and lead nowhere. A fit friend from Germany and translator of my book—arrived answer is to publish, publish, and publish. Looking down for a week’s stay with his daughter, Desiree, and two the ALBA board roster I see a wealth of academic resources German filmmakers, Frank Dittmeyer and Joerg Briese. We that can be tapped to undertake writing projects on many had a wonderful time as they worked on a documentary as yet unexplored aspects of the Spanish Civil War. about the Lincolns called The Other America. Among the For example, what has been written on the Fascist American vets interviewed were Moe Fishman, Jack Italian intervention into Republican Spain? I assume there Shafran, Clarence Kailin, Lou Gordon, Abe Smorodin, Len is literature in Italy on this subject. But in the USA? Nada. Levenson, and me. They also plan to interview Abe In that regard I am skeptical about Hemmingway’s account Osheroff by mail. of the route of the Italian army by the Garibaldis at For me, the highlight of their visit came on May 1, Guadalajara. Did it happen? Or was it Hemingway Hype? when we went to the New York University archives with Another event irks me; I’m easily irked these days. documents concerning a German named Fred Schofs. Tom Brokaw, the voice of NBC, now writes “The Greatest Schofs had lived in the U.S. from 1929 to 1937 and was in Generation.” The generation he is referring to is the one the process of becoming an American citizen when he Letters Continued on page 17 Yes, I want to support ALBA’s important work in reaching out to the young people of this country. Here is my tax-deductible donation of The Volunteer $_________. Journal of the I pledge to give $_____every quarter/six months. Veterans of the (circle one) Abraham Lincoln Brigade Enroll me as an ALBA Associate. ($25 per year) an ALBA publication Send me information about The Guernica Society, ALBA’s Planned Giving Program. 799 Broadway, Rm. 227 New York, NY 10003 (212) 674-5398 Your name Your address Editorial Board Peter Carroll • Leonard Levenson City, State, Zip Gina Herrmann • Fraser Ottanelli • Abe Smorodin Design Production e-mail address Richard Bermack Editorial Assistance Mail to: Nancy Van Zwalenburg ALBA, Room 227 Submission of Manuscripts 799 Broadway Please send manuscripts by E-mail or on disk. New York, NY 10003 E-mail: [email protected] 2 THE VOLUNTEER September 2002 ALBALBAA PPrroogrgramsams CCoastoast ttoo CCoastoast he scope of ALBA’s autumn cal- website bookshelf: www.alba-valb.org. endar reveals both our amazing After the premier in San Diego, Tgrowth and organizational the exhibition will tour the east coast progress that will carry the story of and the midwest during 2003. the Lincoln Brigade and the Spanish Back on the east coast, the award- Civil War to new educational arenas winning, best-selling novelist E. L. from San Diego, California, to Doctorow, author of Ragtime, World’s Washington Square, New York, from Fair, Billy Bathgate, and The Book of Tampa, Florida, to Chicago and Daniel, highlights the 5th annual Allentown, Pennsylvania. With two ALBA-Bill Susman Lecture on Friday exhibitions on tour, the unveiling of a October 18, 6:15 pm, at the Tishman new monument, and star speakers like Auditorium, New York University E.L. Doctorow on the agenda, this Law School, 40 Washington Square fall’s programs anticipate larger audi- South between MacDougal and ences than ever before. Thompson Streets. The program is co- Just after the anniversary of sponsored by NYU’s King Juan Carlos September 11, Muhlenberg College’s I of Spain Center. Admission is free Center for Ethics and Leadership in and open to the public. For more Allentown is sponsoring a week-long information, call 212-998-3650. series of programs on the theme Since its inception in 1998, the “Patriotism in a Global Era: The ALBA-Susman Lecture has featured a Ed Balchowsky’s cenotaph stone Boundaries of Home.” ALBA’s cele- roster of prominent speakers, includ- was placed last June at Forest brated photography show, The Aura ing the classicist Bernard Knox, Home Cemetery (west of Chicago), of the Cause, will be the featured cul- historian Gabriel Jackson, Judge site of the Haymarket Martyrs’ tural event in the college’s Martin Art Baltasar Garzón, and poet Philip memorial, Emma Goldman’s grave, Gallery for the fall semester. On Levine. The lecture honors ALBA’s “Dissenters’ Row,” and many other September 18, ALBA Chair Peter founder, the Lincoln veteran Bill notable memorials. Ed, whose Carroll presents the keynote speech Susman. stone is well-situated near the path “Global Intervention and Moral The next day, Saturday October to the Haymarket memorial, was Choice: The Legacy of the Abraham 19, 2 pm, ALBA and the Juan Carlos the first known Lincoln Brigade Lincoln Brigade.” For more informa- Center are also co-sponsoring a public veteran buried at Forest tion, contact Marjorie Hass, Director program, The Wound and the Dream, Home. Participants in the three- of the Center for Ethics and featuring Cary Nelson’s newest book, year effort to fund and create Ed’s Leadership, 484-664-3321. an anthology of U.S. poetry about the stone included the Chicago Friends The same week, ALBA’s newest Spanish Civil War. The site is the of the Lincoln Brigade, Ed’s many traveling museum exhibition, They Greenberg Lounge, New York pals, his cousin Jeff Balch (right), Still Draw Pictures: Children’s Art in University Law School, 40 cemetery guidebook co-author Wartime from the Spanish Civil War Washington Square South between Mark Rogovin (left), and donors to Kosovo, will open its national tour MacDougal and Thompson Streets. too numerous to name here. at the Mandeville Special Collections This program is supported by the Library at the University of California, New York Council for the San Diego. Consisting of 78 color Humanities. Friends of the Lincoln Brigade are drawings by Spanish refugee children Plans are also set to unveil a new launching a new organization, and 22 by children of later conflicts, monument honoring the volunteers CFLB/ALBA Associates, with a full the show also includes photographs who went to Spain from the region cultural program including Cary by Robert Capa and posters that around Tampa, Florida, at a site in Nelson speaking about U.S. poetry depict the youngest victims of war- front of the Centro Asturiano in Ybor and the Spanish Civil War at fare. For more information, contact the City on November 2. The stone used Roosevelt University on Veterans UCSD library, 858-534-2533. for the memorial was shipped from Day, November 11. For more details The catalogue for They Still Draw Spain. For more information, contact and information, contact Marta Pictures, which includes a foreword by Willy Garcia at 813-224-9185. Nicholas, 773-288-1538 or email Harvard psychologist Robert Coles Meanwhile, on the 66th anniver- Chuck and Bobby Hall at and essays by ALBA’s Anthony Geist, sary of the arrival of the International [email protected]. is available at a discount at the ALBA Brigades in Spain, our Chicago THE VOLUNTEER September 2002 3 Homage to John Cookson By Juan María Gómez Ortiz Cookson’s death as a supreme expres- attendance were Manuel Requena large, emotional crowd gathered sion of international solidarity. He Gallego, director of the Centro de Ain Marçà, Tarragona, on June 29 finished with a ¡Viva! to his life and Estudios y Documentación de las to pay homage to John Cookson, an memory. Brigadas Internacionales at Albacete; International Brigadista from After Levenson’s words, a state- the English writer Angela Jackson, Wisconsin who was killed during the ment by Wisconsin brigadista author of the book British Women & battle of Ebro on September 11, 1938. Clarence Kailin was read. Kailin, a the Spanish Civil War; the members Due to Cookson’s unique personality, friend of Cookson from their student of ADABIC (Associació Catalana his death was especially painful to years when John had lived with d’Amics de les Brigades members of the XVth Brigade, where Kailin, was shattered by Cookson’s Internacionals); Amparo García; Lola he was lieutenant of transmissions, death, and through the course of his Delgado; and Olga Gascón Flanagan, and to all the people who knew him.
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