killed during that bombardment and hisfather died at the front some timebefore. He was a very .. pleasant and intelligent boy. Doctor Roberto was very proud

"of him, bitterly remarking that this youngspaniard

faces life with the stamp of the Non-Intervention Com-L mittee on him-——a stamp that could never be erased from the thousands of other such cases in Spain. C

, - Madrid appeared more serious now. The popula?-

tion was already living on rations of 100 grams of

bread. per person, per day; coffee without sugar had" ‘become a luxury. Houses, hospitals, public buildings

remained unheated for the second successive winter.

The people were more united andmore determined to I fight against fascism. Bombs and shells had broken. many, of the buildings, but not the spirit of the Madri- *

lenos! .. _ The celebration of the second anniversary of the

victory at. the polls of ‘the Popular Front Government

was evidence of this. On February'16th, 1938, the C biggest threatres and cinema houses, were overcrowded

with people celebrating the occasion. The people turned

out, united—Socia1ists, Republicans, Communists, An-

archists, Catalans, Basques, Andalusians and Castil- lians. Resolutions and greetings pledging support to the Government were adopted amid cheers. ‘ e

At the beginning of .March, we heard that La Pas-it sionaria was coming to Madrid. On the evening of March the 8th, International Women’sDay, a few of '. .

uswent to hear her at Cine, Monumental. The meet-

ing had been organized by the Women’s Anti-Fascist Committee and was attended mainly by women. In the huge audience thereiwere only threelhundred men.

Cheers and applause lasting for ten minutes greeted

Passionaria as she appeared on the stage. r Delegations of girls from various factories and ..sectionsof Madrid C

C. marched in with flowers,‘ shaking her hands and kiss- ing‘ her. . T t ,

She paid tribute to the Spanish women forthe sac- i ll

rifices they had made in the fight for independence and

peace. She praised the Spanish mothers who had sent

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