Word: fabre
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strength for Propaganda. The man who started the crusade in Trouillas is a wispy little bus driver named Joseph Fabrégas. Ever since World War I, Fabrégas had been thinking about Gandhi and world peace. After Gandhi was murdered, he began thinking about Garry Davis, self-proclaimed citizen of the world, whose movement began to mushroom last year in Paris. Fabrégas kept saying to his passengers: "Some people go on hunger strikes to demonstrate their love of peace. We in the Garry Davis movement eat well and drink well and use the resulting strength...
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...
Flattering, if coy, is Foreigner Fabrès' reason for visiting the U. S. Says...
...Oscar Fabrès has a Gallic wit, honed to an international cutting edge by cartooning in half the countries of the world. Last month short, balding Cartoonist Fabrès came to try his metal in the U. S. Last week his first impressions of life in Manhattan appeared in the New York World-Telegram. In his Adventures of Oscar, Oscar is himself, drawn much smaller than in his European comic strips. His explanation: "I am bewildered. I feel like a very little man in New York." In one strip (see cut) he is frisked...