The first statement is stupid, not the second: it’s true that wars are made for money, which is power, but young men go off to the front and kill and get killed for words, which are poetry, and that’s why poets are always the ones who win wars; and for this reason Sánchez Mazas–who from his position of privilege at José Antonio’s side contrived a violent patriotic poetry of sacrifice and yokes and arrows and the usual cries that inflamed the imaginations of hundreds of youths and would eventually send them to slaughter – is more responsible for the victory of Francoist arms than all the inept
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