Daniel Aaron's chapter on Dos Passos, footnote 3

3. *NR*, XCII (Oct. 6, 1937), p. 237. *Writers Take Sides* (N. Y., 1938), a collection of statements by American authors on the Spanish Civil War, demonstrates the overwhelming support given to the Spanish Republican government by American writers. Of the 418 American writers who gave their views on theSpanish war, 410 strongly favored the Loyalists, seven took no positive stand, and one author (Gertrude Atherton) sided with Franco. Besides Communists and party sympathizers, the list included names like Thornton Wilder, Edgar Lee Masters, Fanny Hurst, Maxwell Anderson, John Steinbeck, Hemingway, and many others.

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