Hemingway, Ernest by Selected Letters 1917-1961 (Scribner 1981)

Author:Selected Letters 1917-1961 (Scribner, 1981)
Language: hun
Format: mobi
Published: 2016-02-11T09:32:25.415000+00:00

E R N E S T H E M I N G W A Y

dream. Their new angle was that the last part of the play take place on

an island and they would have a real island on the stage and raise their

own exotic plants.

I wish I had never heard of a play but had written a novel instead.

Probably a lot of other people do too.

Patrick was confirmed yesterday and was the pride of the Parish since

no one could answer the questions the Bishop asked except him. He is

terrific on catechism and would make a fine lawyer for the Holy Rota

Romana by present showing. Gregory, since he learned that confirmation

brings five dollars in its wake, can hardly wait to enter catechism class.

I also explained to him about interest when takeing them down to put

money in their saveings accounts and Giggy said, "Boy I wish I was the

one who thought of that."

Uncle Gus and Aunt Louise had a nice visit. He fished two days in

the gulf but the weather was bad : a heavy norther blowing both days

so he caught no sailfish but plenty of reef fish. I flew down in a blizzard,

six hours late. Uncle Gus was tired. I wish he could have stayed long

enough to get rested.

The Italians moved in new troops, artillery and planes while the Spanish

government sent away all their foreign volunteers and then had the

French border closed against their bringing in artillery and munitions by

Chamberlain and Daladier. Oh well there is no use to talk about it. But

when I read in the Sunday Visitor about the atrocities of the Reds, the

wickedness of the Spanish "Communist" Government, and the humanness of General Franco who could have ended the war months ago if he had not been afraid of harming the civilian population after haveing

seen town after town bombed to the ground, the inhabitants killed, the

columns of refugees on the roads bombed and machine gunned again

and again-well there's no use talking. But that sort of lying kills things

inside of you. They take great pains now to prove Franco never bombed

Guernica. It was JUSt blown up by the Reds. Harry Sylvester, who was

never in Spain in his life, proved it to me in a long letter. \Veil I was not

in Guernica. But I was in !\1ora del Ebro, Tortosa, Reus, Tarragona,

Sagunto, and many other towns when Franco did exactly what he denies

haveing done in Guernica. But what's the use now? There is only one

thing to do when you have a war and that is win it. \Vhen you have been

betrayed and sold out a dozen different ways and have lost you shouldn't

object to being lied about in addition. The British were the real villains.

All the way through from the very start.

Then the Catalans would never fight. They never fought in the whole

war. Maybe they are simply too nice people but we have a rhyme in

Spanish that translates into English like this :

S E L E C T E D L E T T E R S

477

My face is black

My nose is flat

But still I am a man.

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