July 11, 2003

'Doves of War: Four Women of Spain'

By NINA C. AYOUB

In the fall of 1937, two Englishwomen crossed the Channel bound for volunteer work in war-torn Spain. For Priscilla Scott-Ellis, an aristocrat traveling through France in a luggage-filled limousine, the voyage had the spirit of a tourist outing. She hoped that her trip would lead to marriage to a Spanish prince serving with Franco's German allies in the Condor Legion. The other Englishwoman, Nan Green, was a deeply earnest Communist. She followed a husband already on the front with the