It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.
Martha GellhornFrom the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.
Martha GellhornJournalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.
Martha GellhornWar happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
Martha Gellhorn