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Quite as impressive to me as indicating the part
played by the Monarchists is the interview I had with
Count Romanones, many times Prime Minister and Foreign
Minister of the King, my neighbor in Madrid and later,
in the early part of the war, in Fuenterrabia. In the
latter place four days after the war began, Romanones
said to me these very words:
"We began preparations for the opening of the war
immediately after the elections (1936). Everything
has been thoroughly prepared and it will be over with-
in five days. "
Later when I reminded him of what he had said to
me:
"We counted on the Basques and they are against
us; on the Navy and the men are not for us; and WE DID
NOT COUNT ON THE RISING OF THE PEOPLE. 11
Any attempt to set the Monarchists aside as hav-
ing no partnership in the war with the Axis is a mani-
fest absurdity--perfectl; - - silly.
III.
When the war began the high pressure propagandists,
under the direction of Goebbels and his agents, ex-
plained the participation of Nazi Germany and Fascist
Italy by saying that they could not stand for "the
communistic Government in Spain".
Now the Communist party was not numerically im-
portant at any time up until the war began. In the
elections of 1931, right after the King left, they
were unable to elect but one communist member of the
Cortes out of 476--2 he was a rich man, a parlor
communist from Cadiz. In the elections of 1933 they
could not elect one member. In 1936 they elected
fifteen out of 476, though this was out of proportion
to their actual strength. It came about in this way:
The real Republican parties of democratic ideology
lost the election in 1933 because each of these parties
had its candidate for the Cortes in each constituency
while the reactionary parties had a common front and
one candidate in each. When the elections of 1936 ap-
proached, it was manifest that unless the Democratic
parties
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