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...GUSTAV REGLER...
...There are all kinds of parlors and all shades of parlor Bolsheviks. But TIME pays its respects to crusading Gustav Regler, who has genuinely suffered for what he genuinely believes...
...GREAT CRUSADE-Gustav Regler -Longmans, Green...
...necessary, to make a living barrier of their bodies to keep Franco's Moors out of Madrid. They did. Most of them were killed. Their successors, chiefly Americans, were later terribly routed at Teruel; Alvah Bessie described their extermination in a powerful book, Men in Battle. But until Gustav Regler published The Great Crusade this week, nobody who fought in all the battles had ever described the heroic period of the International Brigades, the defense of Madrid...
...better position to write such a book than Gustav Regler. A leftish German émigré writer, Regler was one of scores of salon Bolsheviki who, drawn like flies by the smell of blood, swarmed down on Spain in 1936. There he ran into his great & good friend, Matei Jalka Lukacz, former Hungarian officer, former defender of the Marxist faith in matters esthetic for Linkskurve (Left Curve), the most influential German Marxist literary magazine. In Spain Lukacz (General Paul in The Great Crusade) was general of the Eleventh and Twelfth International Brigades. He quickly made Author Regler (Albert...