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Round, bald Catalan Pablo Casals, world's top cellist, outspoken anti-Nazi champion of the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War, was reported arrested in southern France, turned over to Franco's authorities...
...years he has conducted more than he has played, he still gives piano concerts. Violinist Thibaud, for a time heartbroken by the loss of a son in the war, now plays in Occupied and Unoccupied France. Cellist Casals, contrary to rumor, is not in concentration camp, although as a Catalan partisan of the Loyalists he is out of favor with the Spanish Government. He gives concerts in southern France, is not allowed to return to Barcelona, where he has a large family, once had his own orchestra...
...best Axis tradition, Spain also posted a death list of names prominent in pre-Franco Spain. Ubiquitous, little Luis Companýs, Catalan journalist, lawyer, patriot, who was acclaimed President of Catalonia in 1936, was discovered in Nantes by the Gestapo, garroted in Spain on orders from Franco...
...unhappy, Dale made few friends, immersed himself in the study of difficult languages-Assyrian, Catalan, Hungarian. For relaxation, he joined the Verein Turmwächter (Harvard's German Club), became its treasurer. With fellow club members, he spoke German, drank beer, sang German songs, heard German speakers, discussed German culture. For all their Germanic carousing, his companions remained good democrats. But they soon began to discern in Dale Maple a growing admiration for Adolf Hitler, and for Nazi "efficiency." Dale took perverse pleasure in shocking his associates by singing the Horst Wessel song and Deutschland Uber Alles. When pink...
Five months ago the "Nationalists" won the Spanish Civil War. They were as strange a mixture as can be found in a Catalan bouillabaisse: Bourbon Generals and aristocrats, plutocrats, devout and royalist Carlist Requetés, radical Fascist Falangists, Moors, Germans, Italians...