"In Paris I met Hemingway. We had a lot of drinks and good dinners and Hemingway said that if there was any way he could help he'd be glad to do it. That came just right, for Dos Passos had left us in Spain. Hemingway was on his way to Spain as a correspondent for NANA, the North American News Alliance. He expected Spain to be just another war, and that was the way he intended to write about it. He had strong, personal, sentimental relations to Spain; but he saw no particularly deep implications in this war, and was pretty sceptical when I described it as the first test of fascism in Europe, fascism on its first battlefield."
