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France Divided - The French and the Civil War in Spain (Paperback, New)
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France Divided - The French and the Civil War in Spain (Paperback, New)
Series: LSE Studies in Spanish History
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This book sets out to analyse the schism in French public opinion
during the Spanish Civil War that was to end in the tragic collapse
of French national unity. It makes no claim to being a new history
of the conflict, or even of the international events surrounding
it. It touches only cursorily upon the events in Spain proper. It
considers only tangentially French public opinion in regard to the
two Spains. Instead, it examines how the French people viewed their
position in the international imbroglio swirling around the Spanish
question, and how news was manipulated as never before. And since
opinion polls were inexistent and radio commentary had little
influence, almost the only means of gauging public opinion is the
press. Mainstream historical fact is presented merely as the
skeleton on which French press reportage is grafted. Included in
the historical material is the author's research in the archives of
all five of the French departements bordering on Spain. Within the
press, four areas predominate: editorial opinion; propaganda;
French correspondents in Spain; and collateral events in France
(frontier incidents, arms supplies, foreign volunteers, and
espionage activities). The work is divided into two parts, the
chronological hiatus coming in December 1936. This division is
explained by the policy formulated by the democracies that went
through no appreciable change; a policy sufficiently strong,
perhaps, to deter the Axis powers from all-out intervention in
Spain, but weak enough to allow them to pursue with impunity a
victory by attrition. The periodic opening and closing of the
French frontier played no decisive part in the outcome, since
French aid to the Spanish Republic never came close to what the
Axis provided the Nationalists. The book ends with the agony of the
Republican exodus. Published in association with the Canada Blanch
Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.
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