one of whose major attractions was General Tom Thumb. His circus, ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’, 1871, amalgamated with that of J. A. Bailey as Barnum and Bailey’s ten years later.

See the documents presented to the Tribunal for Espionage and High Treason reproduced above, in which, unbeknown to Orwell, he, Eileen and Charles Doran are described as ‘confirmed Trotskyists’ (trotzkistas pronunciados).

Francisco Largo Caballero (1869–1946), a left-wing Socialist and Prime Minister and Minister of War in the Popular Front government of Socialists, Communists, Anarchists and some liberal Republicans from 4 September 1936 to 17 May 1937. He is described by Thomas as ‘a good trade-union organizer without vision’ whose ‘political errors of judgement… were at the heart of the problems of the republic in the months before the conflict’ (933). The Germans imprisoned him in a concentration camp for four years; he died in Paris, not long after his release, in 1946.