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...Irun broke and ran but not the Anarchists. With their philosophy of "direct action" it seemed to defending Anarchists that the thing to do before giving up Irun was to set torches to this ''Wool Capital of Spain" and burn it to the ground. Newly famed Anarchist Buenaventura Durruti sounded the keynote when he cried ''We are not in the least afraid of ruins. It is we who built these palaces and cities here in Spain. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are going to inherit the earth. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: I run's Fall | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...Anarchists outstanding in fact if not in title in Barcelona are Buenaventura Durruti and Juan Garcia Oliver, both newly skyrocketed to fame from the looms of Barcelona textile plants. These smooth-shaven, intensely modern young men sufficiently dispose of the Victorian idea that Anarchism is an affair of terrifying beards. As a matter of fact, "The Father of Anarchism," the late great Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who died in 1865 had only a "Newgate Frill" (fringe of whiskers) around his placid countenance. The last of the internationally great Anarchist thinkers, Russian Prince Peter Kropotkin, who was the perfect prototype of "Bearded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Anarchism Without Beards | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

This feat, magnificent as it appears, was not difficult of accomplishment. Colombia has few cities of any commercial consequence: Barranquilla with its seaport at Puerto Colombia; Bu- caramanga, Cali, Cartagena, Cucuta, Manizales, Medellin, Buenaventura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 'First in Air | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

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