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- ↑ "NEWS OF THE-SCREEN; ' Plough and the Stars' Opens Today-Helen Jepson Signed by Goldwyn-Return of Constance Bennett News From Hollywood". The New York Times. 1937-01-28. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-02-06.
- ↑ Scott, Patrick; Bruccoli, Mathew J. (2002). "Hemingway:War in Spain and the Fifth Column". University of South Carolina. Webpages based on the catalog for the Speiser and Easterling-Hallman Collection of Ernest Hemingway at the University of South Carolina.
- ↑ "FILM ON SPAIN BANNED; New Brunswick Bars Showing as Red Propaganda". New York Times. 25 March 1937. p. 27.
- ↑ "Waterbury Bars 'Spain in Flames'". New York Times. July 21, 1937. p. 12.
- ↑ "Spanish War Movie and Speech by Granville Hicks Banned on Cape". Boston Globe. July 16, 1938. p. 1.
