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ROMANCE f N DRAMA
By Arid Spain's Solitary Voice In The Night
HE wonderful broadcast of the Pontifical High Mass in Rheims Cathedral, which must have stirred memories of the War in many hearts and of the close tics that bind France and England together, seemed almost like a prelude to the Paris visit of our King and Queen.
There arc constant allusions to this approaching visit in the French broadcasts, and for the view of a closer union between our two countries, whether in the radio dialogue .between M. Lefebre and Paul Morand when the latter spoke of the English kings as excellent administrators of their French possessions, or in that poignant radio play Mirabeau, admirably acted. Mirabeau, the champion of the people's rights, whom Chateaubriand, as a young man, saw sitting in the Constituante " formless as Milton's chaos," Mirabeau whose dying words, as the commentator observed, seem more topical than ever today: " Alliance with England is our salvation and will ensure peace in Europe."
Are there any romantics left among the youth of today who—so we are told in print—have substituted comradeship for love?
If there are any among those delightful searchers and seekers of happiness " Under Twenty-five," who Seekers Under discourse so gravely Twenty-five and earnestly on life, one must hope that they heard Camille Mauclair's broadcast on Tutankhamen, the tragic boy-king of nineteen, laid to rest in his three solid gold coffins.
Two of these have been sent to the Cairo museum, but the third has now a glass Iid, so that visitors who are asked to uncover and keep silence in the tomb, may gaze on the boy-king's mummy, on whose breast still lies the bunch of flowers laid there by his little widow of seventeen, who survived him only a short time, but whose burial place is unknown.
To listen to Salamanca at midnight, these days, is to be deeply stirred. To hear that solitary voice in the Drama from silence of the night Salamanca recount the story of the terrible slaughter of 2,000 citizens at Castellon, of the shooting last week at Barcelona of ten prisoners, mentioned by name, whose safety Negrin had guaranteed to the British Ambassador, to hear of the nobility and dignity, 'the joyfulness in laying down their lives for their faith of these martyrs, is to have one's conscience deeply moved.
Are we Catholics, living our normal, sheltered lives, worthy of the sacrifice of these martyrs? Are
Are We we making sacrifices Worthy? in turn? Do we
bring up our children to treasure the spiritual heritage left to us?
" Friend," says that midnight voice from Salamanca, " do you know anything of the glorious movements of salvation in New Spain?
"If you have friends or acquaintances who are ignorant of the great issues at stake, enlighten them. You will not only render us an immense service, but you will help in the restoration and preservation of our faith."