Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rugged individualists like most Spaniards, the Barcelonians have decked their buildings with many a discordant banner: the five-barred red-&-yellow flag of Catalonia, the red-yellow-&-purple of the Valencia Republic, the red flag of Communism, the black-&-red banner of Anarcho-Syndicalists. There are a number of other parties of varying opinions, all demanding a share in the Government. Nowhere else in the world are Communists so decisively ranked among the conservatives. That is because in Catalonia, Communists believe in discipline, as opposed to the free-for-all philosophy of the pure Anarchists, largest and most troublesome group...
...Spanish civil war put blood in the eye of Owen O'Duffy. From the back hills he recruited a battalion of young boys, sworn to die in the fight against communism and in defense of the Catholic Church, and that a great many of them did. Last week, with General Franco pounding away at the gates of Bilbao, word came that General O'Duffy's Irish Brigade would soon be on the way back to Britain. The official reason was that since the international non-intervention scheme went into effect fortnight ago, no replacements could...
COLLECTIVISM: A FALSE UTOPIA-William Henry Chamberlin-Macmillan ($2). A veteran Russian correspondent (Christian Science Monitor) defines fascism and communism as interchangeable parts of the same death-dealing machinery...
Last night at the Copley Theatre the Harvard Dramatic Club continued it tradition of presenting American premieres. The piece chosen this time was "The Dog Beneath The Skin", a satirie fantasy, by Auden and Isherwood, two current which-hopes of English literature and communism. A little after twelve thirty a slightly bewildered but certainly amused audience trickled out of the theatre feeling that "The Dog" probably wasn't a good play but that it was good fun. On the whole, they were right...
...Europe, including Austrian (?) revolutions ("We have them every fortnight now"), a German lunatic asylum ("Everything for the leader"), and a London cabaret ("British love is the best"), by all means go to the Copley. Don't lot the fact that "The Dog" is supposed to be propaganda for rugged communism frighten you away either. The propaganda is there all right, if you want to look for it, but it doesn't jump out at you, and I am afraid that the objects of Auden's satire haven't enough connection with normal American life to make it very effective...