sentences:  In 1937 the League of American Writers sent out surveys to over 1,000 American writers asking their position on the Spanish Civil War.Some 418 returned the survey forms, with 410 supporting the Loyalists to the Spanish Republic, 7 professing neutrality, and only one — Gertrude Atherton — supporting General Francisco Franco and his nationalist forces.In accord with the CPUSA's political line, no effort was made to contact writers known to be sympathetic to Leon Trotsky.