Recherche dans la collection - Minifie, James M. - Interview

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: SPANISH CIVIL WAR ORAL HISTORY TAPES

1981-0117

Enregistrement sonore

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1964-12-28

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

interviewer, Mac Reynolds

Interview of CBC reporter James M. "Don" Minifie, who covered the Spanish Civil War as a reporter for the International Herald Tribune. He speaks about such subjects as the outbreak of the war, forewarnings of the conflict, his being assigned to cover the government side, propaganda, weapons and tactics tried out in the war and later used in the Second Word War, the role of Germany in supplying Franco's troops, other correspondents who were covering the war, various battles such as Teruel, the overall strategy of the war, efforts to cut Madrid off, the International Brigade, problems in getting supplies from France into Spain for the Loyalists, the participation of Canadian in the war, recollections of Matthew Halton and Toronto Star correspondent Pierre [Van Passen], the importance of Madrid to the Loyalist cause, the difficulty of being impartial when covering a war, comparisons of this war to the Second World War and the modest impact of present-day Spain on world affairs.

English

Libre

A1 2004-05-0011

GAD 0FD547

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