Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time Walter Graebner has been to Russia, but Russia is almost the only place in Europe where he has not been since he started work for TIME in 1931. He has followed the news into Warsaw, Berlin. Prague, Paris, Budapest, Bucharest. He has interviewed newsmakers in Rome, Barcelona, Lisbon, Istanbul, Ankara, Jerusalem, Cairo...
...crash. With his share of the estate he bought the Citizen, was a full-fledged publisher at 23. He kept a union shop, covered labor news himself, sweated long nights over heavy editorials on international affairs. He took a turn at covering the war in Spain, was bombed in Barcelona. Franco, he said, made him "a good Democrat...
...first time, after 126 years of neglect, has been bought in the past by some 100,000,000 readers of Spanish. Says Translator Porter: "[It] is without dispute The Novel of the past century, not only for Mexico but for all Spanish-speaking countries." One press in Barcelona printed a million-odd copies annually. For millions of common people The Itching Parrot has been editorial page, moral preceptor, soapbox speech, liberalistic handbook, underground leaflet, scandal sheet, pulp-thriller, comic strip, and dirty-joke book. It has also been-and still is-an engaging story in which is made wonderfully vivid...
...plays in Occupied and Unoccupied France. Cellist Casals, contrary to rumor, is not in concentration camp, although as a Catalan partisan of the Loyalists he is out of favor with the Spanish Government. He gives concerts in southern France, is not allowed to return to Barcelona, where he has a large family, once had his own orchestra...
Nobody, least of all smart Franz von Papen, expected Britain to listen to Hitler's peace bid. Winston Churchill had already said flatly that Britain would never treat with a Nazi (TIME, Nov. 17). Ambassador von Papen's interview was given to the correspondent of a Barcelona newspaper and was directed at Spain and Turkey. Germany, he said, regarded Turkey as a "bastion of peace" at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, as Spain was in the west. This week Berne reported German troop movements as far south as northern Spain...