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...Rebel Spain celebrations of the fall of Catalonia had to be postponed. The vicars general of the Diocese of Barcelona and the Archdiocese of Tarragona declared their "gratitude for the comfort given by Pius XI to the faithful in Spain during the 30 months of essentially religious revolution that the country has suffered...
...Valencia; No. 3, Barcelona; No. 4, Figueras...
Shortly after the war started se४r Barriobero became the presiding judge of the anarchists' revolutionary "People's Tribunal" in Barcelona, where he prided himself on following his own personal principles of justice. He soon ran afoul of the Loyalist Government, was accused of pocketing some of the fines he collected, was finally imprisoned in a hospital. Three weeks ago, when Generalissimo Francisco Franco's troops took Barcelona, se४r Barriobero remained behind, of his own volition. Last week, a broken, stoop-shouldered, tired old man, he was tried before a military tribunal in the same court...
...newspapers consulted, only 13 refused Harvard permission to copy their publications. Newspapers from Germany and England, France and Italy, Russia, China, and Japan are alike being recorded. No objection has been heard from the organs of totalitarian states. Films of "La Vanguardia" of Barcelona are still being received at Widener...
Getting practically no ordinary education, Picasso worked off his ingenuity in drawing and painting at home. When he was 14, his father moved to Barcelona to take a post as professor in the School of Fine Arts. Picasso's precocity was already such that at 15 he left his father's instruction and set up his own studio, first in Madrid and later in Barcelona. His painting at this time was perfectly strong, finished and professional. Too poor to furnish his Barcelona studio, he amused himselt by painting on the walls, in great detail, the missing pieces...