SHEARING A POET

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 293, 6 September 1932, Page 2

SHEARING A POET

Spain Set Laughing A BATHROOM COMEDY As Senor Gassols, a Catalonian Deputy, who is also a poet, and whose classical locks are the joy of Spanish caricaturists, was on his way to the bathroom of a Madrid hotel at which he -was staying, four men armed with scissors pounced on him. They pushed the poet into the bathroom, and while he struggled to free .himself and shouted for help, one of the amateur barbers managed to clip and drag away some of his locks. The poet finally got away, rushed to his room across the corridor, became a Catalonian Deputy, grabbed a revolver, and chased the assailants through the hotel, firing shots, none of which hit the men with the scissors (or, fortunately, anyone else), and all four escaped. «■- One of the would-be shinglers, however, in his hurry to get away, mistook The route, ran ■ through the kitchen, knocked over the, cook, and smashed a ■lot of plates. Senor Gassols is one of Colonel Macia’s right-hand men, well known for his Nationalist tendencies and his violent anti-Spanish speeches. He recently published an article in a Barcelona newspaper which he controls, in which he said that when the Catalonian statute of autonomy was approved, “it would be time to turn all the pigs out of Catalonia,” evidently meaning the Spaniards or those who were not Catalonians. He was made Minister of Education by President Macia in the short-lived ! Republic of Catalonia, which was proclaimed on the downfall of the Monarchy.