![]() ![]() His articles brought him to the notice of the Spanish republic's ambassador, who asked him to work for the Spanish information bureau. When the Spanish civil war broke out, Southworth reviewed books on the conflict for the Washington Post. In 1934, he started work in the document department at the US Library of Congress in Washington. ![]() At Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) in Lubbock, Texas, he majored in history, with a minor in Spanish. There, he learned Spanish from the Mexican workers. He worked as a construction worker and in a copper mine in Arizona. ![]() He also founded a radio station in Tangier following the end of World War II. Herbert Rutledge Southworth (Febru– October 30, 1999) was a writer, journalist and historian specializing in the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent Francoist State in Spain and whose work led the Francoist ministry of information to set up an entire department to counter his demolition of the State's propaganda. ![]()
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