Beginning in May of 1938, J. Clifford Haley Jr. wrote a series of articles for the Tacoma Times about the nine months he spent fighting with the Loyalists in Spain. He had recently returned to his wife and two small children in Tacoma after a harrowing escape from a Spanish prison. Mr. Haley had lent his services to the Loyalists because he believed in their cause. A radio technician by trade, he had ending up serving on a front line machine gun crew. He found the Loyalist army rife with disorganized leadership, unjust treatment, petty politics, bureaucracy and a disregard of human life; he also found that they were not living up to the Marxian doctrine that they held up to the world. He fled the Loyalist army using falsified documents, but was caught and imprisoned by the Spanish. He managed to escape. He sailed first to Africa and then on to New York - and finally Tacoma. Far from giving up his ideals, he still believed in the Loyalists' cause and their Marxist doctrine. (T. Times 5/14/1938, pg. 1 plus succeeding articles)

Haley, Clifford; War correspondents--Tacoma--1930-1940; Journalists; Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939--Communications;