Editing Homage to Catalonia (section)

=== Appendix two (orig. ch. 11) ===
An attempt to dispel some of the myths in the foreign press at the time (mostly the pro-Communist press) about the "[[May Days]]", the street fighting that took place in [[revolutionary Catalonia]] in early May 1937. This was between anarchists and POUM members, against Communist/government forces which sparked off when local police forces occupied the Telephone Exchange, which had until then been under the control of CNT workers. He relates the suppression of the POUM on 15–16 June 1937, gives examples of the Communist Press of the world—(''[[Daily Worker (UK)|Daily Worker]]'', 21 June, "Spanish Trotskyists Plot With Franco"), indicates that [[Indalecio Prieto]] hinted, "fairly broadly to the delegation that the government could not afford to offend the Communist Party while the Russians were supplying arms."<ref name="Penguin2">George Orwell ''Homage to Catalonia''. Penguin Books 2013. p. 246.</ref> He quotes [[Julián Zugazagoitia]], the Minister of the Interior; "We have received aid from Russia and have had to permit certain actions which we did not like."<ref name="Penguin2" />