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...also took place. Into France went 350 cheering men of the International Brigades, until now a part of the Leftist Army. Surrounded by French Mobile Guards, they exchanged fists with French Leftists, shouted: "They didn't need us any more. They can win all by themselves!" Arriving in Barcelona to witness the complete evacuation of the remaining 8,000 International Brigade men was a League of Nations Commission of 19 members, which included Noel Field, U.S. member of the League's Permanent Disarmament Commission...
...Barcelona last week opened a political trial so engrossing that even a major air raid, even, the shattering concussion of bombs which exploded a few hundred yards from the courtroom did not distract the judges, prisoners or spectators. In an atmosphere electric with hate and Spanish passion, Andrés Nin was at last put on trial in absentia. Andrés Nin's small, blonde Russian wife or widow had a ringside spectator's seat...
Dead or alive, Andrés Nin was the focus of the Barcelona trial last week, just as Leon Trotsky was the focus of the Moscow trial after which 16 Trotskyists were executed (TIME, Aug. 31, 1936). In the prisoners' box at Barcelona sat seven Ninists. The seven and Nin were charged, as members of his P.O.U.M., or Workers Party for Marxist Unification, with high treason, espionage and "ominous activities." As an example of these the long indictment charged: "They provoked a real revolution in Catalonia [in May 1937], fought against the police and even managed to make...
...fact that this treason trial, held with full constitutional procedure, was open to the public-many traitors in the civil war's early days having been dispatched to their graves by star-chamber proceedings-was stressed by Barcelona correspondents as significant. The Leftist Government hoped that this trial would convince influential British opinion that it is not Red. Therefore, the most important charge, all correspondents agreed, was not any of the capital charges of treason for which the seven may be shot if found guilty. It was the charge that the defendants "did all they could to give...
Addressing the Cortes in Barcelona last week, Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin said: "Spaniards must come to an under-standing among themselves without outside aid." Similar sentiments were expressed in July 1937 by Leftist President Manuel Azaña, but last week New York Timesman Lawrence A. Fernsworth wirelessed from France that this time Premier Negrin meant business. In Spain, significantly added Mr. Fernsworth "the suggestion that peace negotiations may be under way is not permissible in the press or in news dispatches sent out of the country." The Leftist Government remains pledged to victory, "a formula that does...