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...Barcelona, which had already gone on daylight saving time, Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin shoved clocks ahead yet another hour last week, to save still more electricity. Tap water usually ran in the capital for only a few hours each day. Food shops were on short rations, gone altogether the displays of wines, cold meats, biscuits and pastries of a few weeks ago. In Barcelona last week 28 Rightist suspects were executed by Leftist firing squads, and the worst Rightist air raids in six weeks had killed 30, wounded 50 at latest dispatches...
...Barcelona correspondent is compelled to live under the Negrin dictatorship and his dispatches are so heavily censored that readers should not expect the truth in them...
...February 1937 "The Mink" was in Barcelona consorting with Soviet dignitaries who had arrived from Russia to assist Leftist Spain. Manhattan's anarchist paper, Il Martello, on Feb. 28, 1938 devoted its leading article to "The Mink" on the theory that he was Joseph Stalin's trigger man and Assassin Extraordinary...
Liston Oak and Harry Milton, U. S. citizens who have fought for Leftist Spain and returned to the U. S., avowed in Manhattan last week their belief that "The Mink" functioned for months in Barcelona as its most dread Stalin Secret Political Police agent...
From the managing editor of the Brooklyn Tablet, Catholic weekly, Managing Editor Edwin Leland James of the New York Times last week received a suggestion about the treatment of dispatches from his Barcelona correspondent, Lawrence A. Fernsworth. Gruff "Jimmy" James replied promptly...