in "intransigeant" guillaume apollinaire emphasized the importance of what the cubists were doing and defended them with passion. louis vauxcelles in "gil blas" attacked them with a violence that was quite extraordinary. younger critics who wrote columns in "comoedia, excelsior, action", and "l'oeuvre" were more reserved, some of them even welcomed the cubists with sympathy; in "paris-journal", the free spirited poet andré salmon wrote an account of room 41 that was full of intelligence and sympathy. the most important thing for gleizes was that the younger generation of critics had been won over by cubism.