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...League of American Writers produced an album of records ($2.75) called Behind the Barbed Wire-six songs of the French, Spanish, Italian and German antiFascists who now rot in the French concentration camps of Gurs, Vernet d'Ariège, Argelès-sur-Mer...
SALUTE TO SPRING-Mer/c/e/ Le Sueur -International ($2). Stories in which moments of human ripeness are contrasted with various famines, emotional and physical, found in the Middle and Far West during a caved-in decade...
Debussy: La Mer (Boston Symphony, Sergei Koussevitzky conducting; Victor: six sides). Record of the month. Koussevitzky's Bostonians make every salty splash of Impressionist Debussy's great seascape glisten in hazy sunshine. Magnificently recorded...
...only Toscanini was at fault; the recording was nowhere near the excellence of something like "La Mer" by Koussevitsky, also on this month's release. The base is shallow and distorted, and the highs are brittle and sharp-all of which is exceedingly destructive to Beethoven...
...even so the advice of his soldiers was probably merely cover. For the sum mer he had been waiting on events to turn in his favour and had been making his preparations to seize the opportunity, when it was offered to him. The Russian Pact appeared to give him the advantage which he was seeking and thereafter there was no time to lose, if mud was not to be added to Poland's allies...