Word: barcelona
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...Barcelona studio, decorated the walls with paintings of sumptuous furniture he could not afford...
...Coogie," born in Barcelona, plays Cuban rhythms watered-down and violin-perfumed, but with enough gourd rattling to make them sound authentic. For this the Cuban Government regards him as an ambassador of culture-with the title of Commander in the Order of Honor and Merit of the Cuban Red Cross...
...when he got to Spain, his first lesson began to sink in: Fascism was designed for export, and anybody who did not want to import it must fight it. Somewhere between Valencia, blitzed Barcelona and Madrid, his ivory tower crumbled, and Matthews stepped from its rubble to do the best reporting of his career. Because it was also optimistic reporting, he wound up feeling as sick at heart as the Spanish Republicans...
Getaway. From Munich it was a clean getaway across Germany to Strasbourg, across France slowly to Perpignan. He climbed wearily over the Pyrenees into Spain, eventually reached the British Consulate at Barcelona. Horned Pigeon is an almost day-by-day account of these adventures, in the tradition of Cage-Birds, The Tunnelers of Holzminden and other "escape books" of World War I. Like them it makes exciting reading, until Escaper Millar's lapse into bitter irrelevance at the end. His publishers think that the postscript, and the pained significance of the title (the pigeon, released from a foreign cage...
When Franco rose against the Republic, the old labor chieftain rushed to its defense, became head of the Government. He organized Madrid's defenses, armed the labor unions. He sounded like his old Barcelona anarchist competitors when he growled: "I would like to see every bricklayer go to work with his rifle slung on his shoulder. Then I know that nothing could exist in Spain except the will of the great mass of the Spaniards...