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...French border to within ten miles of the tiny State of Andorra. They controlled at week's end nine of the twelve main roads from Spain to France. Barcelona Leftists again purged suspected Rightist sympathizers, two cinema theatres being necessary to hold one night's haul. Leftist organ La Vanguardia philosophized that such measures "repugnant as they are to a spirit of liberalism, are justified by the circumstances...
Censors permitted to pass the estimate of Izvestia, official Government organ, that the now collectivized peasants have resisted this year to the extent of sowing only 35,463,792 acres up to last week whereas the State had ordered them to sow by then 48,705,881 acres. Thus far, according to Izvestia, 17% of the total sowing scheduled for this spring has been done. Thus, despite all censorship, the main fact came out that Dictator Stalin, having suddenly realized how much trouble is up, has leaped in with concessions which he hopes will persuade the peasantry to start sowing...
...that as it may, no one who has ever heard the Te Deum will be able to forget the composers unbelievably beautiful combinations of also and choral parts, nor the gradual build-up of the organ accompaniment, first behind the solo voices, then by itself in ever-swelling magnificance, to the tremendous choral outburst on "Non horuisti virginis uterum." An the last line, "Non confundar in acternum," for the womens' voices alone, is as near to celestial music as we have ever heard...
...expressing "the pervading influence of religion in every phase of American life." For its Temple of Religion it set aside 50,000 square feet, a many-sided 150-foot tower of vaguely ecclesiastical appearance. The interior, without seats, would serve for lectures and discussions of noncontroversial subjects. From one organ and a carillon, music would "softly pervade" the garden surrounding the tower. The Temple's ground would not be consecrated, nor would any denominational services be held...
...least be generous enough to convert this sympathy into practical aid. We, on our part, are ready to put all these criminals at the disposal of these countries, for all I care, even on luxury ships." Rudest German comment on the plan came from the Schwarze Korps, official organ of the Secret Police: "We still offer in free Hamburg a well-assorted stock of Jewish lawyers, well-preserved and well-rested women doctors, specialists for skin and social diseases, also Jewish business heads and raw material wholesalers and Jewish salesmen, the last item with considerable rebate...