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...Curious Spectacle. He attacked and denounced as he wished-rebelling against Alfonso's tottering monarchy ("Spaniards, your state is no more-reconstruct it") and denouncing the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera ("this curious spectacle"). Finally, he founded a political party made up of intellectuals-the League for the Service of the Republic, which sent him to the 1931 Constituent Cortes. There, in his elegant Castilian, he helped write the constitution of the Spanish Republic: "The magnificent and momentous time has come," he cried, "when fate imposes upon Spaniards the duty of acting grandly...
Since 1929, when Dictator de Rivera seized U.S., British, French and Dutch oil properties and merged them into a graft-ridden state monopoly, U.S. oilmen have been kept out of Spain. Recently, Spanish industry, which has been pinched by an oil shortage, has prodded Dictator Franco into dickering with U.S. oil experts to come back into Spain and step up oil production...
...chief contribution that the Mexican muralists (Orozco, Siqueiros and Rivera) made to modern art, Chariot thinks, was in emphasizing "communal" painting, simple and clear in theme, instead of individual expression. "Perhaps," he says, "Mexico will point Europe back to the forgotten way." In Colorado, Charlot has put his own students to work on a gigantic fresco of the fall of Jericho, to "keep them, out of mischief for months at a time, and help them understand that teamwork is important and that originality is not all-important...
Like the Big Three of Mexico's revolutionary art (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros), David thought painting should "contribute forcefully to the education of the public." The French Revolution and its aftermath gave him a chance to paint propaganda pictures for a vast new public, and a brand-new set of heroes and martyrs to portray. David sat in the National Convention, voted for Louis XVI's death, and eventually went into exile because of it, but not until he had tasted glory with Napoleon. Marat, Robespierre and Napoleon might seem a mixed and dubious cast to admire; to David...
Courage. For setting these fires in the land, Evangelistas do not blame all Catholics. They regard Mexico City's Archbishop Luis Maria Martinez as a peaceful man with respect for the rights of minorities. But Archbishop José Garibi Rivera of Guadalajara makes no secret of his militant anti-Protestantism, and many a parish priest follows his lead. Said Evangelista Ruesga last week: "It has always taken courage to be an Evangelista in Mexico; right now, for the first time, I am scared...