Eric Blair and his wife Eileen Blair
It is clear from their correspondence that they are confirmed Trotskyists. They belong to the IRP [sic] of England.
ERIC BLAIR was on the ILP Committee functioning in the Lenin Division on the Granja front (HUESCA).
Liaison with the ILP of England (correspondence of D. MOYLE and JOHN MACNAIR).
Among the effects of CHARLES DORAN is found a letter addressed to ERIC B. from JOHN MACNAIR, asking him to write reports for the ILP.–
They must be considered as liaison officers of the ILP with POUM.
They were living in the Hotel Falcon, supported by the POUM Executive Committee.
Credential from the POUM Executive Committee signed by JORGE KOPP (from its character it seems to be a credential in favour of EILEEN B. valid for the events of May. [No closing bracket]
ERIC B. took part in the events of MAY.
Liaison with ALBACETE by means of DAVID WICKES.
Liaison with MOSCOW.–
Eileen B. was on the Huesca front on 13–3–37 (date inscribed on a photograph). She has a credential issued in BARCELONA on 17–3–37. Her husband has a permit to leave the front to go to Barcelona, issued on 14–3–37.
1. Sir Richard Rees, George Orwell: Fugitive from the Camp of Victory (1961), 147. For Burnett Bolloten’s application of the word ‘terror’ to the Spanish experience, see The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution (1991), 570–71.