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Not for King or Country: Edward Cecil-Smith, the Communist Party of Canada, and the Spanish Civil War

Not for King or Country: Edward Cecil-Smith, the Communist Party of Canada, and the Spanish Civil War

Wentzell, Tyler

Paperback

Canadian HistoryGeneral Military HistorySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 1487522886
ISBN13: 9781487522889
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: Jan 31 2020
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Not for King or Country tells the story of Edward Cecil-Smith, a dynamic propagandist for the Communist Party of Canada during the Great Depression. Born to missionary parents in China in 1903, Cecil-Smith came to Toronto in 1919 where he joined the Canadian militia and lived a happy life ensconced in the Protestant missionary community of Toronto. He became increasingly interested in radical politics during the 1920s, eventually joining the Communist Party in 1931. Worried by the growing strength of fascism around the world, particularly in China, Germany, Italy, and Spain during the summer of 1936, Cecil-Smith quietly departed Canada and became among the first volunteers to fight for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War. Cecil-Smith was motivated to fight not out of any sense of traditional patriotism (for king or country) but out of a sense that the onward march of fascism had to be stopped, and Spain was where the line had to be drawn.

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