Glad Reds

Monday, Apr. 05, 1937
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Since most communist organs are convinced that Britain's Catholic Charge d'Affaires George Arthur D. Ogilvie-Forbes is a sort of Papal Ogre in Spain, the News Chronicle's reasonably objective Geoffrey Cox takes time out to report that considering that he is a Catholic" he is really not such a bad lot: "At night, very late, there would come stealing faintly into the ha11 of the Embassy a sound which I am sure must have perplexed the [Spanish] guards at the gate. . . . Behind closed doors Mr. Ogilvie-Forbes was play-the bagpipes. He plays them, I understand, excellently. It always struck me that, if the Embassy should be attacked, our best defense would not be to gather in the hall, but to wait until Mr. Ogilvie-Forbes marched downstairs playing The Flowers of the Forest. It would have appealed overwhelmingly to a Spaniard's sense of curiosity, even if it did not scare him out of his wits."

*Jailed by Nazis in Germany sits the Big Red after which this battalion is named, Comrade Ernst Thalmann, once a Presidential candidate in Germany (TIME March 21, 1932 et seq.). *Poet Brooke died on the island of Scyros in 1915 , bloodpoisoning contracted during the Dardanelles campaign.