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...GUSTAV REGLER...
...There are all kinds of parlors and all shades of parlor Bolsheviks. But TIME pays its respects to crusading Gustav Regler, who has genuinely suffered for what he genuinely believes...
...better position to write such a book than Gustav Regler. A leftish German émigré writer, Regler was one of scores of salon Bolsheviki who, drawn like flies by the smell of blood, swarmed down on Spain in 1936. There he ran into his great & good friend, Matei Jalka Lukacz, former Hungarian officer, former defender of the Marxist faith in matters esthetic for Linkskurve (Left Curve), the most influential German Marxist literary magazine. In Spain Lukacz (General Paul in The Great Crusade) was general of the Eleventh and Twelfth International Brigades. He quickly made Author Regler (Albert...
Quick to spot dramatic detail, General Paul's third eye was in a position to pry into everything from the love letters of the Internationals in the trenches to the secret sessions of the staff. Most of what he pried into, Regler got into his novel. For back of the eye was a mind burning with a deep hatred of fascism (publishers report that Regler was once named Nazi Public Enemy No. 19), a keen sense of the historical importance of the events he was observing, an almost religious reverence (Regler is an ex-Catholic) for the simple, anonymous...
General Lukacz was killed when a shell struck the automobile in which he and Commissar Regler were riding. Says Novelist Ernest Hemingway in his flattering preface: it might have been better for Regler if he had been killed too. He survived, but a steel splinter so nearly bisected him that the doctor who dressed the wound was able to push his hand completely through Regler's body. Author Regler escaped from France just before the Nazi invasion, is now in Mexico...