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Hemingway had to wait in Paris for ten days in early March while trying to get a visa for Sidney Franklin from the US State Department.1 Prior to their arrival, the left-wing coalition of Léon Blum had closed the border with Spain and announced a strict enforcement of the non-intervention agreement.2 Moreover, the French government adopted a bill giving Blum power to prevent recruiting or aiding volunteers for Spain. Heavily influenced by a conservative English government, France had made a calculated decision to place itself on the margins of the Spanish Civil War.
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Muller, G.H. (2019). Madrid, March–May 1937. In: Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28124-3_3
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