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...picture mixup, TIME'S apologies to Barcelona-born U.S. Citizen Jose C. Figuerola, resident of New York City since 1918, who served as ordnance adviser to the U.S. War Department in World Wars I & II. Engineer Figuerola is not to be confused with Barcelona-born Jose Figuerola (no kin) who is labor expert for Juan Peron...
This unusual film was made in and near Barcelona during the death agonies of the Loyalist cause. It was produced and directed by the famed French novelist and soldier, Andre Malraux, from episodes in his book of the same title. The film had to be smuggled into France, where post-Munich timidity prevented its release. Throughout the German occupation it was hidden. Malraux's first & only film, it places him-as readers might have guessed from the cinematic elements in his writing-among the few top movie talents...
...government-organized demonstrations against the U.N. were impressive. In Madrid (see cut) 100,000 herded into the Plaza de Oriente to hear Franco. In Barcelona more than 100,000 marched down the Paseo de Gracia in the icy winter sunshine. The raised-arm salute was used only once (it has been replaced by waving white handkerchiefs). But the barked "Franco, Franco, Franco!" is still used with almost hypnotic effect. Signs carried included one showing a man preparing to lower his trousers and a dog lifting his leg over the letters "U.N.O...
...escorting the visiting Duchess of Atholl at the time), shocked and nauseated him. He could no longer deal coolly with the bureaucratic intrigues that entangled him. In early 1938, he got the Government's permission to leave Spain with his wife. They crossed the frontier from Barcelona to France, to live in poverty and write...
...guns-for-butter Five-Year Plan (TIME, Oct. 14), Juan Peron last week picked a man tabbed by the U.S. Blue Book as a wartime A is agent. His choice: Barcelona-born José Figuerola, who got his start by blueprinting Government-bossed trade unions for Spanish Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera in the '20s. In Argentina, where he took out citizenship papers in 1930, chubby Jose Figuerola kept up the good work as Juan Perón's Man Friday and expert on labor matters. Argentines now saw -his fine Iberian hand in almost every paragraph...