Students in Spain.

"Yes there's plenty of students fighting for the Loyalists (Government), mostly from America," was the reply to our first question. "Not only students but professors. I met prof. (now Colonel) Merriman from Harvard, Prof. (now Colonel) Dunbar and several other American students as well as Spring (Christopher St. John) the young English Poet. The political education of the American students is on a pretty high level," said Lieut. Spiner. "Lister and Campesino for example are generals who have proved their worth. Military men regared Franco as a goat. So they did Mola before he died. If Franco had taken the advice of his German assistants and made a flank attack on Madrid through the Valencia road he'd have been in there long ago. But no. Nothing would do Franco but an impressive frontal attack, he lost his chance and lost It forever. November 18, 1936, was the day he said he'd be in Madrid. There's a cafe there where they keep a seat with a notice. 'Reserved for Gen. Franco.' It's been waiting for over eighteen months now and it's still empty. It'll stay empty too?"

"Things must have been pretty close that November," I hazarded. He looked at me for a moment with a quiet smile. "I'll say."