ABSTRACT
Franco's Spain is a country living under a totalitarian regime, with its single-party rule, its monolithic press, its regimentation and censorship. A totalitarian regime in power for seventeen years does not kill liberal journals, for the simple reason that it does not tolerate their existence in the first place. Evasion, indifference, revolt, frank aspirations towards greater intellectual and political freedom, allied to the need for a practical recompense after years of study these are among the motivations behind the "rebellion of the young". In January 1954, on the occasion of the eightieth birthday of that great old man of letters, Pio Baroja, the review Indice took the occasion to render public homage to his career. Foreign subscribers obtained their copy of this issue, for the censorship authorities had first allowed it to appear; but they then stopped its sale in Spain. Communism is thus rendered interesting and attractive, no small achievement considering the experiences of the civil war period.
