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Minor undercurrents of Communism and Nazism in Latin America are not undermining a continual admiration and loyalty, for the United States, Marcel Bataillon, France's highest-ranking authority on Spanish literatures, said yesterday following his lecture on "Religious Drama and Theater of the Golden Age of Spain" at the Modern Language Center...
...Bataillon, professor at the College de France, has just returned from a summer's lecture tour in South America and is spending this week at the University...
Latin Americans are generally steering clear of the few Communist and Nazi sympathizers who operate south of the border. They continue to follow and even imitate American customs and ideals, Bataillon added...
...Bataillon notes one strong show of anti-American spirit in Peru, where a "very important" party--the Apristes--is advocating National Socialism and antiracism. Peron in Argentina is "just a demagogue" and the nations Bataillon visited are not at all fearful of his intentions...
Throughout that world, everybody is passionately working and planning. Pathe is readying Le Bataillon du Ciel, whose real-life hero will be chief of French parachutists, one-armed Colonel Bourgoin. Gaumont plans to have Jean Cocteau direct his own La Belle et la Bête, assisted by ace director Marcel Pagnol. Artist Films is planning productions of Maupassant's Boule de Suif and Dostoevsky's Idiot. In Nice, Jacqueline Audry is directing France's sensational new eight-year-old Conrad in Les Malheurs de Sophie...