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...Marcel Rosenberg, first Soviet Ambassador to the Spanish Republic, handpicked the Largo Caballero Cabinet . . . Although the people of Madrid know little about Russia it has become the fashion for them to do nearly everything in what they hope is the Russian manner. Government militiamen, receiving ten pesetas per day, eagerly purchase with their earnings peaked caps decorated with the Communist star, similar to those worn by soldiers in the Soviet Army...
...King and Queen Traversed by Swift Nudes (Marcel Duchamp...
Children were also the concern of the Soviet Ambassador, Comrade Marcel Rosenberg, who appeared last week to be the most authoritative pro-Madrid figure next to its military defender, General Jose Miaja, a strict professional in horn-rimmed spectacles. The so-called Madrid Government had dispersed (TIME, Oct. 26, Nov. 16). Its president, Don Manuel Azana, a Republican, was in Barcelona last week and its Premier, Francisco Largo Caballero, a Marxian, was in Valencia with the rest of the Cabinet. In a manifesto they claimed to be supported by the Soviet Union and by the Mexican Republic...
...Spain is unlike any previous struggle, with factors of which the Duke of Wellington never dreamed, such as fighting planes from technically neutral countries. For every German with Generalissimo Franco there seemed to be a Russian with Premier Largo Caballero. The newly arrived Soviet Ambassador Comrade Marcel Rosenberg rode about Madrid importantly in a Cadillac limousine while the Red Militia cracked out executions. Nevertheless, with Generalissimo Franco's forces advancing on Madrid at a rate of five miles per day, another White army under Colonel Juan Yague captured the former Red Militia General Staff Headquarters at Santa Olalla after...
...Marcel Duchamp painted three Nudes Descending a Staircase. Two are alike save for a slight variation in tonality. Walter Conrad Arensberg owns all three, lent one to the Cleveland show in July, kept the other two at his home in Hollywood where he entertained Painter Duchamp in August...