Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the horse-trading began. Several times the Falange-the only political party in Spain-has been on the point of making public demonstrations and was stopped only by the fear of starting something they could not control and the disturbed state of the country (strikes in Barcelona, riots in Seville). Franco, aware that a party which is afraid of its public is nothing to be afraid of, cut the Falange down a size...
...CRIMSON received the following letter dated February 4 and supposedly from a Harrison Smith, Hotel Suizo, Barcelona. It was headed "Clandestine Sheet of the Students of the University of Barcelona," and contained a terse note from the students to the effect that "the senders address is ficticious...
While the official press glorifies--shamefully using for its propaganda ends--the noble exploits of the Hungarian students against Russian totalitarianism, it has tried to suppress the voice of the students of Barcelona, who have attempted to express their desire for human dignity and liberty...
...Monday, the 14th of January, the city of Barcelona answered unanimously to the call for a boycott of government-owned trolleys and buses. Without the slightest pressure or intimidation the city responded unanimously, showing its discontent with the present politico economic situation...
...students believe it was their duty to emphasize the political significance of this act on the part of the citizens of Barcelona...