“…As in the past, La Fayette went to help the American people, as Garibaldi or Bolivar, as the volunteers for the freedom of Greece, or as Villebois-Mareuil, Colonel of the
French Army, going to help the Boers, or as Armand Carel who in 1823, went to Spain, to fight at the head of a French squadron, against king Ferdinand VII who intended to crush his own subjects who wanted freedom, we have just seen the glorious history of the International Brigades. …”