SPAIN: Fakes!

Crouching with a telescopic lens attached to his camera in the thick of the recent fighting around Cordoba, able German Photographer Capa snapped Red soldiers charging over a trench, then quickly snapped again to catch one of those very soldiers as a White bullet clipped him, bowled him to the ground. In this particular case a wealth of evidence indicated there had been no faking, but last week editors outside Spain had awakened to the unpleasant fact that many of the pictures and much of the text which they could not avoid printing...

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