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This-week President Azaña and three Cabinet Ministers, whether or not they had "fled" from Madrid, arrived unexpectedly at Barcelona and drove about this Mediterranean seaport, cheered by its radical populace...
...accorded the privilege of a holiday at the waterfront while the Soviet steamer Kuban was loaded with clothes and food for Spanish Reds. Several Soviet steamers are now plying back & forth with this exceedingly tame assistance to Spaniards engaged in a death struggle for Communism in their country. At Barcelona last week the Soviet steamer Zirayanin landed 3,000 tons of foodstuffs amid a local celebration by the city's dominant Anarchists, Communists and Syndicalists...
...first time had been entrusted supreme command of the capital's forces, cigar-chewing General Juan Asensio. The Premier told him that the Red expeditionary force which fortnight ago failed to take the Island of Mallorca from the Whites was returning to Madrid last week via Barcelona, strengthened by 5,000 of that independent city's Red Militia who had been hired to fight for the Government by sending to Barcelona a quantity of gold bars from the vaults of the Bank of Spain. With the Premier watching, Red artillery opened up a terrific fire on the Whites...
Terror over Barcelona. If Madrid was enthusiastic last week Barcelona was delirious with popular excesses as its Anarchists, Syndicalists and Communists drove President Luis Companys of their autonomous Catalonia nearly frantic...
...Barcelona taxicabs were confiscated by a Peoples' Committee last week to be run for the benefit of the people. So was the city's chief department store, El Siglo (The Century...