Word: revolutionists
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...since been supplanted in historic significance by men famed chiefly as his tools at the height of his own career. Last week this neglected U. S. hero was made the central figure of a biography that pictured him as a forerunner of the true type of modern revolutionist, an able, unscrupulous, single-minded man, skilled in intrigue and a master of the modern art of political propaganda...
...Louis Aragon- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Uneven but interesting novel by a famed French poet who was once a leader in the Dada and surrealist movements. Laid in pre-War France, it deals with the careers of a fashionable courtesan, a rebellious daughter of a Russian émigré, a revolutionist, includes some vivid scenes of social corruption, some dim ones of social conflict...
...Benito Mussolini, success of the Spanish rebellion might mean more than another boost for Fascism. All over Europe the same rumor was being spread last week. In return for Italian backing and Italian munitions, Spanish Revolutionist Francisco Franco had promised Benito Mussolini to end Spain's present alliance with France and to give Italy the right to fortify Ceuta, opposite Gibraltar, and to use one of the Balearic Islands as a naval base. The Spanish Fascists were a long, long way from victory last week, but if they should succeed and if there were any truth in this rumored...
...these adolescents who killed the pregnant wife of the Norwegian Consul at San Sebastian as her trained nurse was helping her into an ambulance. That was pure, crazy REVOLUTION and it lapped and slavered at Madrid two ways, up from the South under hot-headed Original Revolutionist General Francisco Franco and down from the North under calculating, professional General Emilio Mola...
Soon French workers singing the Internationale were sedately parading around with figures of capitalists whom they had hanged in effigy and a great scare shot through bourgeois Frenchmen, including their spat-wearing new Premier who is a Socialist by party but no revolutionist at heart. In his new fear Premier Blum finally announced that, although French police would not arrest occupiers of factories, they would suppress any disorder in the streets. That night jumpy Socialist Salengro, Minister of Interior, called to Paris steel-helmeted gardes mobiles with rifles in their hands, bade them keep gimlet eyes on his own Socialist...