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...opener. Those statesmen who believed that the New Spain would soon forsake its Rome-Berlin allies and go over to Britain and France had a rude shock, moreover, in the diplomatic tribulations of Marshal Philippe Petain at San Sebastian and Burgos. The 81-year-old Marshal was picked as French Ambassador to Spain because it was thought he would be able to talk to El Caudillo as one military man to another. El Caudillo did not see it that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Delays and Demands | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Notable among the primitives at Worcester was Memling's Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, from Brussels; among the 17th-Century paintings, Rubens' Holy Family Beneath the Apple Tree, also from Brussels. Principal weakness of the exhibition in the eyes of modern students was the fact that it included only two pictures by Pieter Breughel the Elder, the dominant Flemish genius of the 16th Century. At time when the guilds were breaking up and Italian Renaissance influence wa; breaking in, Breughel painted mischievous magnificent scenes of everyday Flemish life. The Worcester exhibition left U. S students still obliged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Flemish Manufactures | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...program of tonight's concert will be as follows: Kyrie from the Mass in B Minor Johann Sebastian Bach Elegischer Gesang Ludwig Van Beethoven Finale "Canticle of the Sun" from San Franceso D'Assisi G. Francesco Malipiero Pour les Funerailles d'un Soldat Lili Boulanger Pie Jesu Lili Boulanger Psaume: Du Fond de l'Abime Lili Boulanger Psaume XXIV Lili Boulanger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB WILL SING FOR BENEFIT TONIGHT | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Thompsonites. With her background of eight years as a correspondent in Vienna and Berlin before the rise of Adolf Hitler, Dorothy Thompson last December joined Publicists Herbert Sebastian Agar (Louisville Courier-Journal) and Hamilton Fish Armstrong (Foreign Affairs) in composing a "Re-Declaration of American Faith" to which, on Benjamin Franklin's birthday (January 17), the National Student Federation set out to obtain "several million'' signatures. First they signed up 63 Big Names, including such diverse characters as William Allen White, William Green, Marshall Field III, Al Smith. Central proposition of their manifesto is an inverted declaration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pressure Groups | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Brazil's Sebastian Cardinal Leme da Silveira Cintra, who reminded his visitors of New York's late saintly Cardinal Hayes, greeted them as "spiritual ambassadors." Archbishop Pedro Pascual Farfan of Lima, Peru-an ancient Catholic city which produced the first American saint, St. Rose-addressed Bishop Ryan and Father Sheehy with florid Spanish courtesy, insisted that they sit upon thrones at a reception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Amateur Diplomats | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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