Introduction 

These extracts from the booklet written by Lieut. William 
Kardash give the reader a short but profound insight into the 
character and calibre of true anti-fascists. They were not men 
seeking fortune or fame. They desired one thing---to maintain 
the democratic way of living, to broaden and extend it.

For this ideal they left for Spain---to help save the newly 
won Spanish democracy; to make Spain the tomb of world 
fascism. Their hopes were thwarted by men who do not cherish, 
never did and never will, the democratic aspirations of the 
people. Their financial interests cannot permit them to do 
otherwise.

These "Nazis of the soul," ready to institute dictatorial forms 
of government at any time in order to prolong their decadent 
class rule, followed the line of least resistance to fascism at 
home and abroad. It was their farcical policy of non-interven-
tion that placed the noose around the neck of the Spanish 
people.

The Spanish people lost their freedom temporarily. The 
Spanish people, however, were right. They had warned the world 
that bombs would fall on Paris and London should fascism 
ever be allowed to take Madrid. We have the appeasers to 
thank for what followed.

These excerpts which you are about to enjoy, I am sure, will 
make unpleasant reading for the reactionary and professional 
patriots. These gentry have too much to account for. Their 
actions in the period of history about which Kardash writes 
are a page which they would like others to forget. 

Little wonder it is, that today, when Kardash as a Workers' 
candidate for provincial office raises the vital question of eco-
nomic security and democratic freedom in his native land, Can-
ada, their howls and invective have a note of personal fear---
fear that their hollow promises of the past will be exploded, 
that their record will be compared with his---and found wanting. 

But the vast majority of the Canadian people---the worker 
and farmer, storekeeper and professional, housewife and student, 
employed and unemployed---want security, freedom and happi-
ness. For these, your needs, Kardash will fight. 

It is due to the numerous requests of Winnipeg citizens who 
did not have the opportunity to obtain Kardash's booklet, "I 
Fought For Canada In Spain," that the Workers' Election Com-
mittee has undertaken to print this abridged edition.

In it you will read the story of a brave people and especially 
of those Canadian boys, who volunteered to stem the tide of 
Naziism and Fascism. Among them was Bill Kardash. Let 
us hope that Canada will continue to produce such men. 

M. J. FORKIN.

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