RSS

Contact us

Sunday 22 November 2009

Orwell in The Ramblas

So we sat there, lazily drinking coffee and gazing across at the Teatro Poliorama, where the Englishman and his P.O.U.M. comrades were holed up for three "unbearable" days during the street-fighting:

Next door to the P.O.U.M. building there was a café with a hotel above it called the Café Moka. The day before twenty or thirty armed Civil Guards had entered the café and then, when the fighting started, had suddenly seized the building and barricaded themselves in. Presumably they had been ordered to seize the café as a preliminary to attacking the P.O.U.M. offices later. Early in the morning they had attempted to come out, shots had been exchanged, and one Shock Trooper was badly wounded and a Civil Guard killed. The Civil Guards had fled back into the café, but when American came down the street they had opened fire on him, though he was not armed.

"Homage to Catalonia".

Actions: Print this article  |  Email to a friend  |  Permalink  

Post this entry to:   del.icio.us | Digg | Newsvine | NowPublic | Reddit

Advertisement

Spectator Business | Apollo Magazine

Corporate | Advertising | Privacy | Terms

Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London, SW1H 9HP

All Articles and Content Copyright ©2009 by The Spectator | All Rights Reserved