Page "Federico García Lorca" Paragraph 22

Many anti-communists were sympathetic to Lorca or assisted him.

In the days before his arrest he found shelter in the house of the artist and leading Falange member Luis Rosales.

Indeed, evidence suggests that Rosales was very nearly shot as well for helping García Lorca by the Civil Governor Valdes. The Basque Communist poet Gabriel Celaya wrote in his memoirs that he once found García Lorca in the company of Falangist José Maria Aizpurua.

Celaya further wrote that Lorca dined every Friday with Falangist founder and leader José Antonio Primo de Rivera.

On 11 March 1937 an article appeared in the Falangist press denouncing the murder and lionizing García Lorca ; the article opened: " The finest poet of Imperial Spain has been assassinated.

" Jean-Louis Schonberg also put forward the ' homosexual jealousy ' theory.

The dossier on the murder, compiled at Franco's request and referred to by Gibson and others, has yet to surface.