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Graduation Gift. Both men took their doubts to be washed away in Spain's blood, but the pilgrimage worked for neither. They drifted back to France, trailing disillusion both with Red brutality and inefficiency. In 1939, after the Stalin-Hitler pact, the French interned Regler at Vernet, a camp set up for political exiles. As usual, pity for others rather than for himself marked his term there. He tried to ease the lot of some Orthodox Jews, and indiscriminately, of anyone in trouble. "Why do you worry about those clochards?", Fellow Inmate Arthur Koestler asked loftily. Helping "bums...
...School tie that is "one of the most distinguished . . . of the good old Continent." In Germany, the Old School was named Dachau and Buchenwald; in Spain, it was Seville (Koestler was imprisoned there for three months, under sentence of death). There was also France's Le Vernet, Italy's Civitavecchia prison. Inmates who have been lucky enough to escape death in the Old School now wear a tie that is patterned of scars, ulcers, and a chronic condition of shakes and terror. "I dream," writes Koestler, that "I am being murdered in some kind of thicket . . .; there...
...Manpower Commission last week swiftly settled a case arising under its order freezing workers in essential war jobs. Back to her war job in Elizabeth, NJ. went Miss Vernet Witham, 19, who had quit sewing shirts for soldiers and sailors to take up more congenial work in a nearby factory as a pretzel bender...
...song, but last week some of its saddest were heard in the U.S. The League of American Writers produced an album of records ($2.75) called Behind the Barbed Wire-six songs of the French, Spanish, Italian and German antiFascists who now rot in the French concentration camps of Gurs, Vernet d'Ariège, Argel...
French caricaturists like Debucourt and Vernet were more delicate if less vigorous draftsmen, though they early showed a fondness for scatological as well as lubricous humor. To such a gross commentary as Rowlandson's The Arch Duchess Marie Louise going to have her Nap (showing the future Empress of France in bed with Napoleon), Satirist Carle Vernet was able to reply with an incomparably more subtle study called Les Anglais a Paris, three figures of a girl, a fat boy, and a military popinjay which still contain nearly all the French have to say about the English character...