Hermann Hesse and Borrell's sad smile: And after the row in the Congress, what? Who will ask for forgiveness for the broken glasses?

The dialectic quarrel that ended with the expulsion of Deputy Rufián from the Chamber began with a misunderstanding. The minister believed that his adversary had called him a racist, and on the back of the confusion the tension burst. He had called him a fascist.

It is evident that the minister is not a fascist; Mr. Rufián and the gentlemen who went after him know it, and Mr. Tardá knows it well. In a legitimate manner, Mr. Borrell has defended ideas contrary to those held by the Catalan independence fighters. It is obvious that attacking him as attacked by Mr. Rufián obeys his wishes to go beyond what is acceptable in a debate. The deputy of Esquerra believes that everything can be said, because everything is fiction, and does not realize that a trap is being set up, because any exaggeration, even if it is spectacle, turns the fuss into ridicule.
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Hesse called it, Friends, not in that tone!, and should be a recommended reading to Rufián by those who accompany him in the Republican seats of the Chamber, and by all those, in one side and another in public life, who boast of scream more than the one in front of them. After its publication, the most shouting nationalists then in pre-Hitler Germany persecuted Hesse, and when the Nazis took over the German government their books and articles were banned.

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