The Spanish Civil War - pg. 45

The May Day parade in Madrid of socialists and communists
horrified the conservative classes watching from their windows.
There were red banners everywhere and huge portraits of Lenin,
Stalin and Largo Caballero. But it was not just these obvious political
symbols which frightened them. The workers in the street had a
new confidence, or, in their view, insolence. Beggars had started to
ask for alms, not for the love of God, but in the name of revolutionary
solidarity. Girls walked freely and started to ridicule convention. Jose
Antonio wrote in a shocked tone: 'Have you not heard Spanish girls
these days shouting "Children, yes! Husbands, no!"?' For him and
those of his background Spain was on the brink of 'a barbarian
invasion'.