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...question now vexing socialists in many lands: whether those Communist forces which have made the Soviet Union what it is today-the Stalinist forces - now largely dominate Leftist Spain or not. Last month worried Manhattan socialists sent Associate Editor Sam Baron of the Socialist Call to investigate conditions in Barcelona and Valencia where were occurring the trials of several prominent Spanish labor leaders for fomenting "Trotskyist riots." Mr. Baron, onetime New York president of the Bookkeepers, Stenographers & Accountants Union, has been active in leading U. S. organizations working for Leftist Spain. Instead of being permitted to "observe conditions" in Valencia...
...overwhelming majority of farmers and workers distrust the present Prieto-Communist coalition," continued Mr. Baron, referring to the Spanish Leftist Government in which Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto overshadows both Premier Dr. Juan Negrin and President Manuel Azaña. This Government's removal of itself from Valencia to Barcelona (TIME, Nov. 3), Socialist Baron reported, "has been very unpopular, both as an admission of failure and because of the political complications that are likely to follow. The failure of the Government to win any victory has depressed the population. Even the Brunete offensive, which was intended to relieve pressure...
...Bates knows Spain; this knowledge has served as substance for his two best sellers, "Lean Men" and "The Olive Field." After serving in the World War as a volunteer, he went to Barcelona where he has spent many of the intervening years. His background includes service in the revolution of 1931 which established the republic that he is now defending...
...Rich Catalan farmers, who experienced the recent Anarchist-Communist disorders, appear to favor the Rebel side as much as they do the present regime in Barcelona and it was indicated that the Negrin Government might assume a more conservative policy in order to win over these farmers and business men." The Negrin Government, not yet settled in their new offices in Barcelona, announced simultaneously that death would be the penalty for any Catalan trying to escape into France...
...Leftist Spain, and every important building in Madrid displayed the red, five-pointed star of Communism with the hammer & sickle or a portrait of Our Sun at its centre. Madrid's mayor renamed part of the famed Gran Via as the "Avenue of the Soviet Union" and from Barcelona Leftist War Minister Indalecio Prieto cabled "Congratulations to the Red Army...