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...Spain. The publications of the British Dominican order (Blackfriars) and the French Dominicans (La Vie Intellectuelle), and the (Dominican-inspired) secular Temps Present in Paris also have attacked Franco, plumped for nonpartisanship. Recently Author Georges Bernanos, French Catholic and Rightist, assailed Franco in a book (Grands cimetières sous la lune), and last week he was joined by another Catholic writer, Victor Montserrat, who defended the Loyalist Basque clergy (Le Drame d'un peuple incompris). The split was dramatized after the recent World Eucharistic Congress in Budapest. Pro-Franco Spanish Cardinal Goma went to visit pro-Hitler Cardinal...
Died. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton, 75, novelist; after an apoplectic stroke; at her villa near Saint-Brice-Sous-Forêt, France. Edith Jones was born into a socially prominent New York family which discouraged her early attempts at writing, although when she was 15 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had some of her poems published in the Atlantic Monthly. In 1885 she married Edward Wharton, Boston banker, whom she later divorced. Her first fiction, The Greater Inclination appeared in 1899. In 1906, like her friend and idol, Henry James, she went abroad to live. Three years later she wrote her famed...
When Franklin Roosevelt's No. 1 Good Neighborhood agent, grey and graceful Norman Hezekiah Davis, went to the reconvened Sugar sessions of the ill-fated World Economic Conference of 1933 in London last month, he announced his intentions with such a neat sous-entendu as would make a French Foreign Officer preen (TIME, April 19). Said he: "This is the sweetest [mission] I have ever had. . . . If we could only reach one agreement ... it would be important in this crucial period of world history to Democracy . . . showing that 22 nations can sit down and reach some agreement...
Another law in the new Hitler program was the conversion last week of the "voluntary" Winter Relief organization into a State foundation headed by Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels. He at once demanded that all German citizens should give every foreign coin in their possession, English pennies, French sous and the like, to the Winter Relief...
...elections recentes le Cercle Francais a choisi Peter L. Scott '38 pour president. Laird M. Ogle '37 et William V. Linde '37 ont ete choisis vice-president et secretaire-tresorier respectivement. Le Cercle sous les auspices de l'Alliance Francaise de Boston presentera a Boston le 25 avril "La Dame de Bronze et le Monsieur de Cristal," piece de Henri Duvernois. Mademoiselle Germaine Arosa dirigera la piece. La distribution des roles comprendra M. M. Robert Turner '37, Bruce Leighton '38, Summer Willard '37, et Richard G. Wheeler...