A newspaperman in Madrid: David Wurtzel has been reading the diary of Lester Ziffren, the United Press correspondent in Madrid who, seventy years ago this month, witnessed the start of the Spanish Civil War.(CROSS CURRENT)

From: History Today | Date: August 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

ON THE EVENING OF JULY 17TH, 1936, Lester Ziffren, known to his friends as Ziff, was in Chicote's bar, the place he called 'our favourite thirst-quencher'. He was preparing his nightly radio broadcast to the United States, 'Spain Day by Day'. In the same bar was one of his well-connected friends, the Marquis of Bollarque. 'Have you heard the news?' Bollarque asked. 'It's started.'

Since the afternoon there had been rumours that something was going on in Spanish Morocco. During the course of a long night, Ziff pulled every string and used every stratagem to get the story past ...

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