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...Barcelona, officials of Spain's Leftist Government confirmed last week that recent Rightist victories in the Teruel sector (TIME, Feb. 14) "completely eliminated the spearhead" which Leftist forces previously drove in north of Teruel. Rightist officials said their troops had recaptured an area twice as great as that taken from them by the Leftist offensive which took Teruel (TIME, Jan. 17, et ante), but the Rightists last week had not recaptured Teruel itself...
Members of the French Chamber who returned to Paris after being guests at the Leftist Parliament session reported that the Leftists had just arrested 2.000 political opponents in Barcelona suspected of conspiring for a coup...
...Leftist Government last week fired its Navy's Chief Political Commissar Bruno Alonso, also fired all political commissars appointed by him to keep an eye on the politics of Leftist sailors at the Cartagena base. The mayor of Barcelona announced that the Leftist capital has now been raided 23 times, the Rightists having dropped 528 bombs which wholly or partly destroyed 863 buildings, killed 918 persons, wounded 2,549 sufficiently for them to receive recorded treatment...
...keep the Rightist spies in Barcelona from tipping off Rightist bombers where the Deputies would meet, Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin first announced "indefinite postponement," then bundled the 170 into motor cars which streaked 30 miles out to the monastery of Montserrat, where once the Holy Grail was hidden, according to Spanish legend...
...past ten months has headed Franco's secret police, his hard bitten Guardia Civil, his frontier and highway guards. He was for seven years Minister of the Interior under Spain's late Dictator, Primo de Rivera (TIME, Dec. 2, 1929), suppressed Communists and Anarchists in Barcelona with such vigor that they retaliated by nicknaming him. "The Epileptic Pig." His nature has not softened...