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- ↑ Chapter Six, The Collective letter , Gunpowder and Incense, Hilari Raguer, Routledge
- ↑ Raguer, p.145
- ↑ Raguer, p.112-113
- ↑ Raguer, p.115. Note:The martirologio of the diocesan archivist Josep Sanabre, referring to the situation in Barcelona, remarked that from September 1936 priests and religious generally received only prison sentences, and that after the events of May 1937, when the Anarchists lost power "it is indisputable that the assassinations of our companions, the priests, came to a stop" and the majority of the priests held in prison, were released.(Raguer, p.128) The writer George Orwell observed that in 1937 the Communists were responsible for imprisoning, not Fascists but revolutionaries [-]"Communism is now a counter-revolutionary force"; " the anticlerical movement, in its violent form, is a popular movement and a native Spanish movement. It has its roots not in Marx or Bakunin, but in the condition of the Spanish people themselves."
- ↑ Raguer, p. 115-116