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...trial in absentia at Barcelona of famed Andrés Nin (secretary to Leon Trotsky in Russia during the Revolution) and seven members of his Spanish P. O. U. M. Party ended almost unnoticed this week by the world press...
Star witness for the defendants was Francisco Largo Caballero, former Premier of Leftist Spain, who testified during the trial that the Poum did not instigate the May 1937 uprising in Barcelona, that Poum Party executives were "sincerely anti-Fascist," not the reverse, as charged by the prosecution...
...verdict this week was described in Barcelona dispatches as "finally liquidating the Trotskyists," although during the trial Poum defendants stressed that, while they "admired Trotsky," they regarded his Fourth International as too academic and favored a fighting Fifth International. Of the seven defendants, all charged with high treason and a variety of other political crimes, two were freed and five sentenced to from eleven to 15 years' imprisonment...
Properly impressed by the dramatic fact that people who were children in 1903 had barely reached middle age by the time Franco's bombers were pounding Barcelona, Director Wellman, who helped concoct his own story, tried to reflect the whole bright saga of flying through the prism of a conventional triangle plot. When Pat Falconer, Scott Barnes and Peggy Ranson are moppets, sailing kites in imitation of the airship Peggy's inventor father is trying to rig up in his workshop, the device succeeds brilliantly. By the time the children have grown up into Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland...
When news of the Fascist uprising reached Barcelona, two years ago, factory whistles all over the city began to blow. In the grey dawn, while the street lights were still burning, one whistle sounded, then another, then a hundred-steadily, mournfully, as in the old days the belfries clamored together in times of peril. Fascist troops were marching on the centre of the city...