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...Barcelona last week opened a political trial so engrossing that even a major air raid, even, the shattering concussion of bombs which exploded a few hundred yards from the courtroom did not distract the judges, prisoners or spectators. In an atmosphere electric with hate and Spanish passion, Andrés Nin was at last put on trial in absentia. Andrés Nin's small, blonde Russian wife or widow had a ringside spectator's seat...
According to Leon Trotsky, whose faithful secretary Andrés Nin was in Russia during the Revolution, there is little if any doubt that Mr. Nin was taken from a jail in Madrid last year by Communists of the Stalin persuasion and murdered. With this view many Socialists, including Norman Thomas, agree-while deprecating the further Trotskyist charge that the Government connived at the assassination. In court last week the Government prosecutor took the position that Señora Nin is the wife of a traitor who escaped from jail, fled abroad and has been in hiding for the past...
...tantalized by not being able to talk to the Dictator before so many people about anything important. Tantalized Sir Nevile remained for days in Nürnberg, telling every prominent Nazi except Hitler what His Majesty's Government "might" do if actual war broke out. But French Ambassador André François-Poncet got something interesting from the Dictator when Herr Hitler responded to some remarks from the Ambassador by observing: "I trust that no mother will ever have cause to weep in consequence of any action of mine." Henchmen of Hitler whispered that earlier that...
When, 17 months ago, foreign correspondents reported that the strategically unimportant holy Basque city of Guernica had been ruthlessly destroyed by German bombers in the service of Rightist Spain, ace French Newscommentator "Pertinax" (André Géraud) had a ready explanation. According to him, Air Marshal Hermann Göring of Germany ordered the bombing as an experiment of the effectiveness of the air attack...
...Once André and Laura are badly settled in their bleak Abbey apartment, the rest of the story dramatizes the question, Whom will André give in to?-his wife, who despises his job, or the Abbey, which at first depresses him, then begins "nibbling" at him, finally swallows him up completely. Instead of the musty, semi-mechanical creatures he expected to find in his fellow guides, he finds sophisticated, witty, sensitive men who have simply come to prefer life in the Abbey to the corrupt world of "the people down below." Treacherous, putty-like quicksands and fog, harsh winters...