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THE son of a railway worker and a lady's maid was as skinny as a broomstick and wore glasses big enough for an owl to better read the poems of Keats, which he loved so much, but when the passion gripped him, he became a soldier, a crusader of conscience, fighting the evil of Fascism spreading across Europe.
Of course, in the style of the day, more attention was devoted to the middle-class intellectuals, such as George Orwell, WH Auden and Stephen Spender, who sided with the International Brigades fighting for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War.See the full content of this document
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Letter: David Marshall
But the majority of the volunteers were from working-class backgrounds, includi...
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