Rebecca West Quote

I am for the legal government of Republican Spain against Franco, since Spain herself, at a properly conducted election, chose that Government and rejected the party which now supports Franco. I am also against Fascism; the reforms of Diocletian were a work of genius and made many people temporarily happy, but failed in the end and added greatly to human misery. I see no reason why this inferior modern copy of them should succeed.

"Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War" (1937),edited by Nancy Cunard, reprinted in The Spanish Front: Writers on the Civil War, edited by Valentine Cunningham. Oxford University Press, 1986.