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...something to ease non-Catholic tribulations in Spain. By way of setting an example, he persuaded the government to compensate the British and Foreign Bible Society for a police raid on its headquarters in 1956, and blocked a request by Catholic groups to close down a Baptist seminary in Barcelona...
...Austrian express train bound from Vienna to Paris got so thoroughly lost in the blizzard that it ended up in Munich. A Yugoslav train reached its destination minus its last five cars; they had blown off en route. Even such southern cities as Marseille and Barcelona were blanketed with snow. Temperatures fell so low in Switzerland that the hardy monks and trusty dogs of St. Bernard retreated to the valley from their Alpine monastery. Ten French villages along the English Channel were isolated for days, and inhabitants ran out of bread, meat and coal. Roads in northern France became literally...
Tale of Pasionaria. Press censorship also has mellowed markedly. Newspapers are no longer given the old-style daily instrucciones that laid down what stories they could run and even dictated how they should be laid out. Though the country's biggest dailies in Madrid and Barcelona are still subject to censorship, only 15 stories have been doctored by government officials since Fraga took over, and no foreign publications have been seized for political reasons.* In other cities, papers no longer are required to show galley proofs to the censors before going to press. One weekly is actually serialising...
...songs, and two or three varities of that hardy perennial of the concert platform, the "delightful" song about a timid or a talkative lover, which ends with an exasperated little yelp from the singer (and polite titters from the old ladies in the audience). On a balmy night in Barcelona, a few of these songs might have been pleasant; it was, in fact, a chilly evening in Cambridge, and fifteen of them (plus two encores) proved a bit wearing...
Although he has achieved distinction as a poet, Reid's intimate knowledge and interpretation of Spain have set him apart as a correspondent with few equals. During the six years he has lived in Spain (first in Madrid, then in Barcelona) the amplitude of his friendship with political, intellectual, and artistic leaders has given him a knight's-eye view of the joustings of Franco and his challengers...