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THEY SHOULD HAVE KEPT THE ELEPHANT

A STORY FROM THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR.

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John Baxter
May 09, 2026
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I’ve just finished work on the biography of a noted film producer whose name for the moment must remain unrevealed. To fill in parts of his early career in Europe before World War II, I wrote some fictional pieces which eventually were’nt needed. This one puts meat on the bones of the sole factoid that he was sent to Barcelona in 1938 during the Spani…

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