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Dr. Norman Allan's father, Ted Allan, was working for the Montreal Communist newspaper, The Daily Clarion, when the editor invoked an idea in his mind that he ought to go and assist in some way in the impending turmoil that was presently coming about in Spain, when Franco came to take power. Ted Allan, missed the opportunity to get there in a pre-arranged fashion, and thus determinedly decided to register in the International Brigade, in order to see through his mission. Within the first six months he was one of the last members of the brigade left alive. While sojourning in Europe he met some of the Great artistic ex-pats and adventurers of the times, including Ernest Hemingway, Gerda Taro, Norman Bethune and Robert Capa. Norman Allan has a great respect for the dignified manner in which his father lived his life, and as such, he took it upon himself to do his father's story some justice. A curious component of Canadian history, Norman Allan decided to format it in a Script, and it