Word: catalans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month Garry Davis came to Trouillas. Fabrégas introduced him to the village's bright-eyed mayor, Gaston Méric. Davis had trouble understanding Méric's Catalan dialect, and Méric had trouble understanding Davis' French; but ideas percolated back & forth. Said the mayor, after Davis had gone: "I felt sure he was a nut. I'm still not sure he isn't. But maybe that's what we need to have peace...
Appelles Fenosa, the sculptor who molded the statue Oradour as a reminder to future generations of the tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane, France, is not of French nationality as reported [TIME, Dec. 31]. Fenosa is a Catalan, born at Sant Marti de Provençals, near Barcelona, in 1899. . . . When Fenosa was 20 years old [he] went to Paris. He returned to his native Catalonia in 1931. He was awarded several first prizes in sculpture by the Catalan Government. His best known works are Maternity and The Three Graces, of which there is a copy in New York...
...Paris last week a tribunal of musicians, including Paul Paray, conductor of the Paris Colonne Symphony, Violinist Jacques Thibaud and famed Catalan Cellist Pablo Casals, got set to try French musicians who danced to the Nazis' tune...
...Mexico ambitious Diego Martínez-Barrio, last president of Spain's Republican Cortes, presided over a meeting of four factions: Izquierda Republicana (Republican Left), Unión Republicana, Catalána Esquerra (Catalan Left), Partido Nacionalista Basco (Basque Nationalists). Main agreement: that the last president of the Republican Cortes will decide when to re-establish the Republican Government in Spain. But absent from the meeting were the followers of Juan Negrín, Socialist last Premier of Republican Spain, now in England, as well as powerful other Socialist and Communist groups...
...first glance, such an oath-practically making each Bishop a local Franco agent-would seem superfluous in Catholic Spain. But people in the Basque and Catalan provinces (hotbeds of Loyalism during the Civil War) still dislike El Caudillo, show it openly now & then. To whip these malcontents into line, Franco has adopted the age-old custom of giving the Church a role to play in his political drama...