Dan West. Needy Spain: Dan West’s Report to The Committee on Spain

Dan West. Needy Spain: Dan West’s Report to The Committee on Spain

During the Spanish Civil War, Quakers from Britain and United States sent reports back to the Friends Service Council and the American Friends Service Committee from Spain exploring the conditions of the people and the gruesome effects of war. This document is an account from Dan West, a member of the Church of the Brethren who worked with the American Friends Service Committee in Nationalist Spain, as he explores Spain in the midst of the Spanish Civil War and sees how the war has transformed it. Of particular interest is the section in which he compares eastern and western Spain, the conditions in which people in either area are living during the war, and how the war has affected both sides differently. West reports that the Nationalists (the Francoists) were greatly in need of clothes and something warm to wear, whereas the Loyalists (the Republicans) were in desperate need of food.

American Friends Service Committee; Committee on Spain

1938

Devin Louis

Report