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...Basque, a nephew of a Bishop of Burgos, Luis Quintanilla was at one time a student at the Jesuit University of Deusto near Bilbao. Before the World War and before he was 20, he lived with the late Cubist Juan Gris in a leaky studio on the Place des Abbesses. Paris, learned to paint, he says, by "talking about it all the time." Little known in Spain until 1927, when he returned to Madrid after two years in Florence, he gradually became recognized as one of the finest artists of the people since Goya. While he was in prison...
Meanwhile Schuschnigg. Jesuit fathers correctly judged Kurt Schuschnigg in his boyhood to have the character of a great fighting Catholic, such as, for example, Ferdinand Foch. Schuschnigg, Jesuit-trained, brilliant and devout, fought in the World War right up to the Armistice, at which time he laid down his arms on Austria's Italian front. It was then, as Dr. Schuschnigg has bitterly complained in his memoirs, that some Scottish soldiers who had been aiding the Italians took not only his rifle and ammunition but also his watch, his ring and his pocketbook. After this he never again felt...
...especially vigilant section of the vigilant U. S. Catholic press has accused much of the U. S. secular press of a bias on issues affecting Catholicism. In particular, the coverage of the Spanish war by such newspapers as the New York Times infuriates Catholic publicists. In America, sharply-edited Jesuit weekly, Rev. 'John A. Toomey, S. J. lately urged that Catholics bring their national organizations to bear on offending journals. Father Toomey pointed out that Jewish issues are never misrepresented for long in the U. S. press, in which Jews are important advertisers...
...Austrian Nazi Party was not legalized, but Austrian Nazis were told they might join the Fatherland Front whose official leader is Schuschnigg, whose vice-leader, Guido Zernatto, one of the Chancellor's most devoted followers, was given Cabinet rank as Minister Without Portfolio. It was clear that Jesuit-trained Kurt von Schuschnigg had not capitulated outright, had driven a bargain with Dictator Hitler...
...process by which Austrians began to breathe easier this week was progressive, .logical. They learned that Premier Mussolini, who is not anxious to have Germany swarm into Austria and thus jostle Italy, had inspired Dr. Schuschnigg's hurried visit to Herr Hitler. They reflected that in Jesuit-trained, rock-pious and astute Dr. Schuschnigg they have a Chancellor who could and would stand up persuasively to potent, mystic, unstable Dictator Hitler. News from London seemed to indicate chances brightening for a British-German-French-Italian understanding to uphold territorial Europe's status quo. Finally the Austrian people this...