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What Spain's people thought of this was hard to learn. Madrid's Ecclesia, new weekly organ of the influential Catholic Action, warned: "We believe that a good dose of prudence is worth-while in these matters; prudence not to deduce from the silence of the proletarian masses-forbidden to strike and restrained from means of uprising-unequivocal indications of their complete contentment." Ecclesia took Spain's leaders to task for failing to note ecclesiastical protests against injustices "for example, of absentee landlordism, a deep and endemic wrong in Andalusia, where few landlords ever know...
Bulky, bossy Ernest Bevin, British to the bone, considers himself more of a proletarian than Molotov. Last week Laborite Bevin became the first official spokesman of a great power to advocate a world assembly elected directly by the peoples, not appointed by their governments...
Russia was relaxing. The Soviet Union's First Proletarian, Joseph Stalin, set the pace. The papers reported last week: "Comrade J. V. Stalin . . . went away on leave." But, with customary caution, they did not say where he went...
Rift in the Ranks? Against fusion and Nenni were the highly respected right-wing Socialist delegates, Giuseppe Saragat (proletarian in suspenders and a cheap cotton shirt open at the neck) and Novelist Ignazio Silone (Fontamara). Cried Saragat: "It is not by chance that the slogan of 'fusion' is launched simultaneously from Norway to Italy. . . . Russia seeks guarantees for herself through territorial conquest and creation of buffer states. ... If socialism renounces its complete autonomy, the interests of the working class will be subordinated to the interest of one state. ... To speak of fusion ... is to cause a possible rift...
...Proletarian Whack. From Moscow, via London, came a venomously polite inquiry: two Spanish soldiers had been captured on the Russian front - long after Madrid announced withdrawal of its notorious Blue Division; what should the Kremlin do? Regard the two Spaniards as prisoners of war, despite their Government's announcement? Or treat them as irregulars, liable to summary execution...