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Two American Fighters in Spanish War Speak Tonight

Fought Behind Franco's Lines; Blew Up Rightist Trains

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The only two Americans ever to participate in guerrilla warfare behind Franco's lines in Spain, Captain William Alstrom and Lieutenant Irving Goff, will speak tonight at Cantabridgia Hall under the auspices of the Harvard-Radcliffe Graduate Student Union.

For more than two years they lived in rebel territory, organizing the peasants to blow up trains, block roads, out communications, and harass rightist front lines.

Before going to Spain, Captain Alstrom was a truck driver whose hobby was writing poetry, while Lieutenant Goff was an adagio dancer.

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