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HOLY WEEK (541 pp.)-Louis Aragon -Putnam...
...this reckoning, Communism and the Resistance movement were the major episodes in the education of France's brilliant Poet-Essayist-Novelist Louis Aragon, 63. Aragon was always in revolt; before he became a Communist in 1927, he was one of the daddies of Dadaism and switched later to the surrealist movement. As an underground fighter, he fought with conspicuous gallantry against the Nazis. After the war, Aragon became anchor man on the French Communists' intellectual first team. Unlike fellow Communist Jean Paul Sartre-who has often strayed off the Red reservation-Aragon has dutifully echoed the party line...
...have it in him to be an executioner. He was shocked at the spectacle of an American comrade reveling in his role as a rear echelon judge-executioner; at the party's callousness to the common claims of humanity; e.g., mail from the American survivors of the Aragon rout of 1938 was left piled up in the party's Paris office because a comrade had swiped the stamp money. Also, he came to know that of the millions collected by the party for "Spanish aid," 99? out of every dollar stuck to the party's pocket...
Though not of royal blood, the De Moras belong to the upper nobility. Fabiola's father, Gonzalo, who died in 1957, was the fourth Marqués de Casa Riera, and her mother claims descent from the royal houses of the extinct Spanish kingdoms of Aragon and Navarre. Last January Fabiola went to Switzerland to visit Queen Victoria Eugenia, widow of Spain's Alfonso XIII. While there, she met for the first time lanky (6 ft.), retiring Baudouin, 30, King of the Belgians. There were other meetings during the summer, but Fabiola continued to live quietly...
...Ramon Bereguer IV, count of Barcelona, drove out the last Moors in 1149, immediately founded Poblet as a memorial and an example to the fierce mountaineers of the region. Within the next half century, Poblet became a geographical and spiritual fortress of the combined houses of Barcelona and Aragon, and the resting place of their heroes. A century later, Poblet was a focal point of Catalonia's losing war with Castile. Philip II, Hapsburg heir to the entire peninsula, built El Escorial, near Madrid, partly to overshadow the relatively provincial pantheon at Poblet. The venerable monastery fell from being...