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The Columbia History of the British NovelPolitically, of course, the values are those of the left. While very few of the writers of the thirties were actual communists, their overriding sympathies tended to be with them, particularly in the face of the fascist threat posed by Hitler and Mussolini. The Spanish civil war, which broke out in 1936, provided a clear opportunity for choice, and very few could resist supporting the Republican cause. The complicated political tensions and interest groups that -741- developed within the Loyalist side eventually muddied the clarity considerably, but for most of the period the oppression of fascist tyranny (though it had its proponents) was easy to oppose. In a poll taken in 1937 by the magazine Left Review, for example, 127 authors out of the 149 queried listed themselves as sympathetic to the Republic, with only five declaring their allegiance to Franco. Even allowing for the magazine's own interest in compiling such data (not all the responses were published), the results are impressive. It is worth noting in this regard that both «leftish» (1934) and «leftward» (1936) added themselves to the English vocabulary during this period ...» |
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