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Thomas' pacifism wavered during the Spanish Civil War, when he sympathized with the loyalist opposition to Franco. But it led him to speak against the U.S. intervention in World War II before isolationist America First audiences, because he feared that entry into the war would bring about fascism at home. Later, however, he concluded that an Axis triumph would condemn the world to the "lowest circle of hell," and gave "critical support" to the war. But when the U.S. used the atomic bomb against Japan, he cried out in protest...
Died. Colonel Segismundo Casado, 75, Spanish Loyalist officer who in the closing days of the Civil War seized Madrid and surrendered the city to Franco in hopes of ending the bloodshed; of a heart attack; in Madrid. One of the few professional officers to march under the Loyalist banner, Casado was nevertheless distrustful of the Communists in Loyalist forces; in 1939, when the Reds vowed to defend Madrid to the death, he turned on his former allies and imprisoned their leaders, thus effectively ending the battle...
...wasted on the old. Without it, youth is condemned to excess. That's what makes adolescents so saddening and maddening-and adolescence such a groovy movie subject. In Zita, an archetypical French fille named only Annie flits agonizingly between life and death. The daughter of a slain Spanish loyalist, she has sympathy for the world but affection for none of its inhab itants, except her ancient Aunt Zita (Katina Paxinou). One afternoon the girl comes home to find the old lady writhing on the floor. Zita has suffered a stroke, and each gasp edges her closer to the grave...
...Activist Loyalist...
...when she needs it, and once goaded Tory M.P. Peter Walker into comparing her to Dickens' Madame Defarge. "Madame Guillotine," he called her. "All that's missing is the knitting." As her friends from Labor's left have learned, she is first and foremost a Wilson loyalist, having served him as parliamentary private secretary when he was Board of Trade president from 1947 to 1951 and as a member of his Cabinet since 1964. He can use her support now more than ever before. The discontent with Wilson is ubiquitous: last week a pint-sized delegation from...