Psychiatric Experience in the Spanish War

The fears by which the civilian of any city in Republican Spain was likely to be troubled during the recent war were: (a) that he or his family might be killed or wounded by bombardment, whether from the air or by artillery; (b) that he might be called 'upon to serve at the front in the Army; (c) that he and his family might be slowly but progressively starved, owing to the scarcity of food; and (d) that he might be ruined economically, owing to the fall in the purchasing power of Spanish Republican money. It was the last two fears that, in fact, proved to be the better founded.