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That Sun Stalin shines in Switzerland too, appeared this week in dispatches from Zurich. There Swiss police arrested National Councilman Marino Bodenmann, a member of the pro-Stalinist Swiss Communist Party, and evidence seized led to arrests of many other Communists in Basel and Geneva as well. Documents seized show, according to the police, that Stalinists in Switzerland have succeeded in recruiting and shipping to Spain 1,200 volunteers for the Spanish Leftists in violation of neutral Switzerland...
...BELLS OF BASEL-Louis Aragon- Harcourt, Brace...
...Americans. Few travellers from this country take the trouble to visit Colmar in Alsace for a sight of the Isenheim Altar. Few go to Karlsruhe to look at the "Cruifixion" and the "Christ Bearing the Cross." Unless they have been warned, they are likely to pass by the Basel "Crucifixion", or the Stuppach Madonna, or even the two important works at Munich--"St. Erasmus and St. Mauritius", and "The Mocking of Christ". Yet, taken together with the thirty-odd drawings extant, and a few other paintings, these constitute the complete works of one of Germany's three greatest artists--Gruenewald...
...BELLS OF BASEL-Louis Aragon- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Uneven but interesting novel by a famed French poet who was once a leader in the Dada and surrealist movements. Laid in pre-War France, it deals with the careers of a fashionable courtesan, a rebellious daughter of a Russian émigré, a revolutionist, includes some vivid scenes of social corruption, some dim ones of social conflict...
...periodicals relating to the question of Hitler's role as the saviour of German capitalism, the most substantial are the "Gegenangriff," (weekly) published in Paris, and "Unsere Zeit," (monthly) published in Paris and Basel. The Neues Tagebuch also brings much of value. The latest article on Hitler and capitalism is the detailed survey of the German economic situation by E. Varga in "International Press Correspondence," of April 10, 1934, containing the conclusion: (page 567) "An analysis of the figures given by the fascist institutions themselves... shows that the situation of the bourgeoisie has improved at the expense of the workers...