Small Archive of a Spanish Civil War Correspondent Alexander Uhl, 1936-1945.

Alexander Uhl and others.

Edité par Various, 1936

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Small Archive of a Spanish Civil War Correspondent Alexander Uhl, 1936-1945. 28 Carbon copies of wire service news stories, research/working copies of articles (1938-1945) AND a very tidy grouping of 130 press clippings (1936-1938). $2450 Part I: articles and background research written by Uhl for various unnamed newspapers, though many are identified as the great PM newspaper, for which Uhl served as war correspondent, acting Foreign Editor and Foreign editor. (This would also helpfully date those articles as PM began in 1940.) There are 28 items here, all seemingly carbon copies from the typed originals, comprising 103 leaves total (all are printed on one side of the sheet of paper). My estimation is that these articles (even though they carry a month and day they do not have the year!) are from the late 1930s though there are a few for post-war Spain in 1945/6. 14 of the articles are headed by Uhl for PM, the other half I believe must be by Uhl as well, though they seem to be more drafts of works-in-progress. These are fascinating documents! [++] Mr. Uhl is a terse and simple writer in the mold of Orwell, and his reporting is clear and concise. The people he meets and speaks with can be extraordinary. For example, there is a typed letter that Uhl received in 1943 from a woman named Teresa Benito (who married Emilio Delgado Rodriguez, journalist for TASS and organizer of Madrid militias) who wrote a bitter letter on the complacency of the Catholic Church in Spain towards the falangists and the Gestapo. She also makes the case for good Catholic priests who were detained and sent to "concentration camps". My question mark on the letter being the original as it is said by Benito at the letter's close. Another interesting example of a working piece involved an interview with a female "spy": "Talked with a British girl who has been in Spain recently. She was working at the time with British intelligence. A woman spy you might callher." "Executions of ex-Republicans are still going on." There is a news wire report on the founding of a new Spanish government beginning at a meeting in Mexico City before moving on to exile in Paris. This document is not dated by year (though the date of 10 January is stated). I suspect that this is 1939 (late) because of the following two points: (1) the Second Spanish Republic is dissolved on capitulation to the Franco government April 1939; (2) the mention in the report of Spain enduring "32 terrible months"at the hands of the Nazis and Mussolini (who began sending troops and supplies to Franco in July 1936) puts the date of the 32 months at least in April/May 1939. [Also the politician named in this article was Diego Martínez Barrio (25 November 1883, in Seville 1 January 1962), a Spanish politician during the Second Spanish Republic, Prime Minister of Spain between 9 October 1933 and 26 December 1933, and briefly appointed again by Manuel Azaña on19 July 1936 - two days after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. ] [+++] Part II: newspaper press clippings for the Spanish Civil War for 1936 and 1937. Many of these stories are attributed to Uhl, though most are unattributed, which was a relatively common practice for newspapers at that period of time. There are 65 onion-skin paper leaves of clippings, comprising about 130 clippings in total. This was the work of a very neat, dedicated person. The newspaper clips come from the San Francisco Chronicle, Associated Press, Newark Star Eagle, and mostly from PM newspaper.

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• Titre: Small Archive of a Spanish Civil War Correspondent Alexander Uhl, 1936-1945.
• Éditeur: Various
• Date de parution: 1936
• Reliure: No Binding
• État de l'article: Good
• Poids: 2 livres
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