And thanks from me, too, Stephan - and I hadn't noticed any problems with
your English: no misplaced apostrophe, no past imperfect instead of
conditional, seems fine to me!
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Piers
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Stephan Van den Zegel
Sent: 27 January 2008 18:38
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Robert Capa negatives found (NY Times article)
And thank you all for your understanding of my bad English (so many
errors... aargh... I'm confused) stephan
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De : olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] De la part
de Winsor Crosby Envoyé : dimanche 27 janvier 2008 19:34 À :
olympus@xxxxxxxxxx Objet : [OM] Re: Robert Capa negatives found (NY Times
article)
Thanks, Stephan, for that correction. It expands my understanding a bit and
makes me want to read more about that period.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On / January 27, 2008 CE, at 10:24 AM, Stephan Van den Zegel wrote:
> The New-York Times is slightly wrong (as usual) when describing Capa
> and the others as communist minded...; they had more connection with
> the Spanish anarchists or Poum members than with the few communists...
> (hence the Mexican connection to get the docs out of trouble). And to
> be more precise on the famous picture it is not a republican soldier
> but of a milician of an anarcho-syndicalist column (soldier would be a
> great offense for his memory)... a thing that the official communists
> would have love to destroy the proof that it ever existed. I know it
> sounds a bit stupid to make such an historical distinction... but for
> those who know the difference it's like if a journalist was asserting
> that zuiko lenses where build to fit on a Canon or Nikon body ;-)
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