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Last Chapter? In Spain this week the U. S. diplomatic mission at Barcelona was packing up to withdraw toward France. The main force of some 60,000 Spanish Rightists under General Juan Yague, advancing toward Lérida, "the Key to Barcelona," found themselves briefly balked at the Cinca River. The People's Army had blown up all bridges for 50 miles along the Cinca to cover their retreat. Wading chest deep through the icy waters, the 60,000 Rightists crossed at Fraga, which had just been reduced to shambles by 160 Rightist bombers. Pontoon bridges were then flung...
...Barcelona, less than 100 miles away, to the microphone leaped Premier Dr. Juan Negrin, exhorting all Leftist Spain to "join our valiant stand against the barbaric invasion directed by the hangmen of Europe...
...Barcelona had definitely become too hot at last for two grandees of Spain, the Marquis de Urquijo and the Duke of Saragossa, who found themselves in Madrid on the day the war began, have since been living expensively but safely in embassy and consular premises of the French Popular Front Government. Into Barcelona harbor suddenly steamed last week two French warships, the Epervier and La Palme. These took off the Marquis de Urquijo, the Duke of Saragossa and 510 other Spanish Rightists, many robust young men of aristocratic Spanish families who appear to have been living like fighting cocks, despite...
Protests. The texts of British and French remonstrances with the Spanish Rightists this week over the Douhetting of Barcelona were kept secret at London and Paris, but Secretary of State Cordell Hull blazed at Washington: "No theory of war can justify such conduct. . . . I feel that I am speaking for the whole American people...
...Toledo and in Madrid. In the fourth month of the war the Government carefully sent him out of danger on a diplomatic mission to France. Last June it let him return for six months of sketching along the front from Madrid to Teruel. After showing his drawings in Barcelona last December, Artist Quintanilla packed them, frames and all, in six padded trunks and took ship for the U. S. In a little studio on Washington Square near the house of his host, Writer Jay Allen, he has lately been doing his first painting in two years. A small, sombre, keen...