Italy has sent thousands of troops, and Germany has sent cannons and planes, to the fascists in Spain. But what did the Spanish people get? Jesus said, “I was hungry, and you gave me no meat. I was thirsty, and you gave me nothing to drink. I was naked, and you did not clothe me.” – yeah, is it not so? What have the democratic countries given Spain? Have they done anything but deny Spain the most necessary, or even closed their borders for all provisions?

While the fascists have openly sent troops, we volunteers have had to trick the police of France and our countries of birth with all sorts of roundabout ways to Spain. We would get to Spain even if the Devil himself were assigned to guard the border. But what’s worse is that the “democracies” refuse to buy weapons for Spain, indeed, they refuse the Spanish Republic its right-- which is clear as a sunny sky-- to defend itself. But the Lord said, “inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” And the ways these “democratic” countries have treated Spain, are the ways, should Spain fall, these countries will be treated by the same forces they today aid indirectly.

(source: Yngvar Ustvedt’s Arbeidere under våpen: Norske frivillige i den spanske borgerkrig, page 45; own translation)