RELEASE OF ’CELLIST SOUGHT
8 (Hec. 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. The conductors, Arturo Toscanini and Eugene Ormandy, and members of the Philadelphia orchestra, have petitioned, the United States Secretary of State (Mr Cordell Hull), and the Spanish Ambassador, asking that the famous ’cellist, Pablo Casals, be granted an immediate amnesty or safe conduct to the Portuguese border. Casals, who was a Loyalist during the Spanish civil war, is at present a political prisoner in Spain, He was captured when the Germans occupied Vichy.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23805, 26 November 1942, Page 3
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