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Before the war they split. Cortot, a collaborationist, became Vichy's secretary for music. Casals, a fiery Spanish Loyalist, hid out in France during the war, performed at Loyalist benefits. Now 70, he has announced that he will never play publicly again until Spain is liberated from Franco. Jacques Thibaud, less politically minded than either, gave concerts in Vichyfrance, but also performed clandestinely in Switzerland and Spain. In France, aging Jacques Thibaud is regarded with somewhat the same mixture of admiration and affection that U.S. audiences feel for Thibaud's close friend, Fritz Kreisler...
...Rightist uprising. Then, in Madrid, Barea saw gangsters and whores put on the overalls of "Milicianos," saw Anarchists and Socialists murdering each other and supposed Rightists without trial. He joined tipsy mobs setting churches afire and saw streets ringing with snipers' shots. It was months before the Loyalist Government could control its defenders...
Barea's narrative of his first year in besieged Madrid mixes impressions of heroism with comedy, brutality with cowardice. He worked for the Loyalist Foreign Ministry, under shell fire in the Telephone Building, censoring the dispatches of foreign correspondents. He liked Herbert Matthews, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos. Others seemed hateful to him, treating as a football game what he felt to be a tragic .agony. He survived it with the help of an Austrian woman whom he later married...
Monday, April 26, 1937 was a market day in Guernica. The town's 7,000 population was swollen by 3,000 Loyalist refugees. Francisco Franco's rebel armies were still far away-but at 4:30 p.m. German Junkers and Heinkels started coming over in waves, every 20 minutes. They dropped 1,000-pounders (monsters at that time) and great showers of incendiaries, and since there was no antiaircraft they flew low and machine-gunned fleeing victims...
...Herbert L. Matthews in The Education of a Correspondent: "The destruction of Guernica will forever rank as the prototype of totalitarian bombing. There one had the systematic and complete obliteration of a town far behind the front lines-which was going to be taken without difficulty anyway, since the Loyalist troops were routed. ... It was the heart of Vizcaya, and to smash it was to break the heart of the Basques...