Last summer in Salamanca, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's capital, workmen piled a double row of railway ties between the arches of a double colonnade that supports one side of the city's great Plaza Mayor, filled the intervening space with sand bags. This was to be a refugio against possible air raids. They took their time about it, for in over a year's warfare no Leftist planes had appeared over Salamanca. Leftist authorities had repeatedly promised that civilian centres would never be bombed by their planes. Nonetheless, Salamanca was surrounded by the very latest...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
