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This long, bitter, muscular novel, by the bitter author of The Bells of Basel and Residential Quarter, Louis Aragon-onetime Dadaist ringleader, left-wing journalist, soldier of World Wars I and II-begins in a false brightness: In 1889 a tremulous dream of hope hung over the world, a miracle world of science, progress, peace. Of course there was always a spatter of gunfire somewhere far off, faint rumbles and stenches from below. But people hoped that all the remaining corruption and debris would be swept away in the magic fin de siècle, that the birth...
...Louis Aragon (Bells of Basel), like Andre Malraux, served in a tank division. His corps was cut off in, Flanders, surrounded. From the beach at Dunkirk, Aragon escaped to England. Two days later he somehow made his way back to France, to the troops still fighting on the Seine and the Loire. Day before the armistice, the Nazis captured him, put him in a prison camp. Like Malraux, he escaped (with 30 others). His hair turned white. Now living at the village of Varetz, south of Limoges, in unoccupied France, Aragon is writing poetry, a novel (non-political). Aragon wrote...
Died. Gates W. ("Silent Gates") McGarrah, 77, massive, granite-jawed financier of the old school, once chairman of the great Chase Bank's executive committee, first president of the Basel Bank of International Settlements, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank during the panic of '29; in Manhattan...
...French freight train chuffed calmly out of Mulhouse, across No Man's Land under the muzzles of Germany's guns, and up to Basel, Switzerland-first French train to arrive there since the end of August. Explained the engineer: "We had a lot of stuff consigned to Switzerland sitting in the freight station ... so I thought I might as well bring it along...
...Swiss border from Basel to Lake Constance: 12 divisions...