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...opinion that it is not Red. Therefore, the most important charge, all correspondents agreed, was not any of the capital charges of treason for which the seven may be shot if found guilty. It was the charge that the defendants "did all they could to give the Government an extremist [i.e., Red] nature, which it never had and which is not the will of the Spanish people...
...Toledo. The Toledo meeting claimed 702 delegates from 70 locals, representing more than half U. A. W.'s 400,000 membership. (The Mortimer faction last week told C. I. O. Boss Lewis that its dues collections were 30% of U. A. WVs peak.) An anti-Martinite but no extremist, Walter Reuther, head of Detroit's huge West Side local, hedged by attending the Detroit meeting himself, sending his brother Victor to the other meeting. Next day in Cleveland, Homer Martin ridiculed the rumpsters' figures, claimed his union was stronger than ever, boasted: ''Ford will sign...
Defense of the capital lay in the Fifth Regiment's hands. Few thought it could succeed, least of all the Leftist Cabinet, then headed by Socialist Extremist Francisco Largo Caballero. Packing up in haste, the Cabinet fled the capital secretly for Valencia, leaving official instructions for greying, amiable, José Miaja to defend Madrid or surrender as he thought best. At this point the Communist leaders of the Fifth Regiment issued a historic manifesto to all Madrid citizens telling them to build barricades in the streets, to fill bottles with gasoline for use as homemade incendiary bombs against tanks...
...merciless. As we had no money, we sent him some of our valuable treasures, but he would accept nothing but cash. This and other pathetic incidents bred in my susceptible mind a hatred of injustice. I was a gloomy youth throughout my student days, with an inclination to read extremist literature from Western Europe...
...book has double meaning for anyone who has studied under Mr. Lowes. If there is one poet who has written in English in the past three hundred years, surely John Keats is that poet on whom nearly everyone agrees, extremist and sit-tighter alike. Why, then, in an age in which so much competent minor poetry is being written, is Keats as a model so consistently neglected? Or is he? Perhaps the answer is that he isn't, but that he translates badly, not to say unrecognizably: that our modern verse idioms, bizarre, swift, and impatient, are incapable of carrying...