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...Moscow's best interests even to try was seriously debated throughout the Communist camp. The Communist newspapers of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Britain, France, Austria and Italy all vigorously condemned the trial. Argued one of France's best-known poets, Central Committee Member Louis Aragon, 68: "To make opinion a crime is something more harmful to the future of socialism than the works of these two writers could ever have been. It leaves a bit of fear in our hearts that one may think this type of trial is inherent in the nature of Communism...
...Spain itself has never had a King Juan, but four Juans have ruled in the land, two each in the ancient kingdoms of Castile and Aragon. Most famous of them were Juan II of Aragon, father of King Ferdinand, and Juan II of Castile and Leon, father of Queen Isabella...
With Wolsey's failure to get the King's marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled, he fell into disgrace, and Henry deprived him not only of his chain of office but his palace as well. Since then, time has not always been kind to it. The small room known as Wolsey's closet was especially hard hit by history. Its ceiling was caked with grime; the paintings were so blistered, peeled and blackened with varnish that they were hardly worth looking at. It took restorers 18 months to complete their work...
...even rate column eight-the preferred Page One spot for the big story of the day. Once more, simply because it was a morning paper, the Tribune scooped the Deseret News on the apprehension of the killer. Even more embarrassing, the guilty man turned out to be one Abel Aragon, one of Mullins' neighbors back home in Price, who put a bullet in his head when FBI men stopped his car. "I never even suspected him," said Mullins ruefully, before stitching together what was by necessity largely an echo of the Tribune's earlier coverage...
LIFE AMONG THE SURREALISTS, by Matthew Josephson (403 pp.: Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $6). Matthew Josephson roared through the '20s like the New Culture Special, stopping here for some Dada nihilism, there for surrealistic analysis and along the way meeting up with Andre Breton, Louis Aragon, Max Ernst, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Malcolm Cowley, Katherine Anne Porter and Hart Crane. With these qualifications, his memoirs might be expected to say something significant. But although his anecdotes are amusing and interesting, they are only dimly illuminating. Somehow the fact that Hart Crane was a drunk and had a penchant for throwing...