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...friendly relations with Capitalist countries. Everyone knows that Stalin and Trotsky profess to be each other's worst enemies, but notably in Spain the disruptive activity of Trotskyists was a direct prelude to the arrival and success of Stalinists who have now taken charge in Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona. The ambiguous relations of Stalin and Trotsky produced the highly ambiguous Moscow Old Bolsheviks Trial (TIME, Aug. 31) of which English Professor Henry Noel Brailsford wrote that it was based on "three manifest impossibilities." Watching the trial, New York Times Correspondent Harold Denny cabled "This correspondent confesses that the psychology...
...What is the source of all this excitement? It arises from rumors regarding the landing of German volunteers in Spain. As long as we only heard of Bolshevist volunteers arriving in streams in Barcelona the Madrid situation, in the opinion of Western European journals, was not at all 'threatening...
...things as that the Radical Madrid Government had just won the Grand Prize in its own lottery; that middle-of-the-road Spanish President Manuel Azaiia was now refusing to have anything to do with proletarian Premier Largo Caballero who remained at Valencia. In a mountain retreat back of Barcelona, the President said: "I feel better here reading a great deal and walking with my wife...
...Langdon-Davies' political reporting presents a conventional Leftist picture, his casual digressions on Spanish temperament, Spanish intellectuals, anarchists, dancing, Barcelona slums, are fresh and vivid. Best is his account of a visit, before the revolution, to Barcelona's vice-ridden Fifth District. Although he had "read about everything in Havelock Ellis and Freud," when he encountered the spectacle of perversities for sale he found his imagination could not grasp the social reality. Opposed to this grim description of "the most tragic human cantonment in Europe," are his reminiscences of a great syndicalist convention he attended in Zaragoza before...
Dali. Artist Dali was born in Figueras near Barcelona in 1904, as a child developed a strong persecution mania and a wholehearted admiration for the works of his friend and countryman, Pablo Picasso. Salvador Dali entered the Academy in Madrid, was quickly expelled for insubordination. As an art student he reached Paris in 1927 when surrealism had yet to make any headlines but was the talk of the Montparnasse cafes...