LETTERS FROM SPAIN 
BY JOE DALLET 
TO HIS WIFE

1.

Perpignan Prison, France 
March 30, 1937 

Dearest, 

Twenty-five of us, seventeen Americans and eight Can-
adians, were picked up in a French fishing boat Saturday 
morning in French waters near the Spanish coast. We were 
just on a pleasure tour but were arrested by the non-inter-
vention commission and have been in a filthy jail since. 

We saw our lawyer who appears quite confident that we 
will be out in a few days. Steve is with me and asks that 
you write Margaret at once and tell her. The spirit, dis-
cipline, etc., of our boys are wonderful in spite of all the 
hardships, and we are treated splendidly by many political 
prisoners who were arrested crossing the frontier. 

The jail food is uneatable but from tomorrow on we 
will be having plenty of food sent in by French friends. 
There is nothing for you to worry about. I will write 
again as soon as I know more. This letter must pass 
through the censor so is necessarily limited. We don't get 
any newspapers here and hardly know what is going on 
outside, although the lawyer says that our arrest brought

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