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raw materials and experienced workers, with which to make the means 
for self-defense. He says that in the fight between Socialism and Fas-
cism, the living forces of creative labor are all on one side, and that we 
should rely on this and send material and machines with which labor 
can produce.

LA PASSIONARIA (with an indescribable gesture of long-suf-
fering yet restless patience): Yes, send machines and machine-
tools. We will ourselves make the rest.

APPENDIX "A"

Georg Branting in Spain

Georg Branting, Swedish deputy, recently visited Spain for the World 
Committee Against War and Fascism. His report included the following 
points:

1) The new cabinet under Caballero will make the creation of a 
central General Staff possible; this has been a regrettable lack.

2) Everyone in Madrid or Barcelona notes the perfect order in these 
cities, "an order self-imposed in everybody's interest, by the people's own 
will for peace and justice.... Everybody knows that the danger comes 
only from the other side, the Fascists! They act as individual murderers 
and spies inside the cities, or they send their airplanes from outside to 
bombard the unsheltered city of Madrid.

3) Fascism managed to put into action not only most of the army 
officers but also most of the higher bureaucracy and civil servants. The 
Spanish democracy therefore, in its defense against Fascism, had to im-
provise a new order.... This includes public administration of rail-
ways, power stations and municipal communications, and also the re-
quisitioning of big palaces, which are being used for hospitals. etc., in 
the interests of national defense.

4) A big democratic people is left without the material possibility 
of quickly suppressing an armed rebellion. Europe's policy is something 
new, proclaiming the right for a handful of the privileged to rebel 
against legal democracy. The power of the Fascist states has forced the 
democracies into passivity, through their anxiety to avoid war.

5) None the less the blockade is not a general one, against all trade. 
It is possible to send to Spain raw materials, machines and experts to 
help in national defense. This is of more advantage to the legitimate 
government than to the Fascists, since the latter have not the same labor 
power. The second kind of help that can be given is warm clothing for 
the soldiers. The third is publicity about the situation. The fourth is 
enforcement of blockade against the rebels.