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...howl because Spaniards who were driven from Irun by the victorious Whites last week were permitted to enter France on the Atlantic coast and put aboard "sealed trains" which soon delivered these Reds back into Spain at the other end of the Pyrenees on the Mediterranean coast at anarchist Barcelona. The Blum Cabinet, striving to maintain its precariously neutral position, explained that these Reds were only receiving the customary humane treatment accorded refugees, and that anyhow most of them paid for their tickets on the "sealed trains." The penniless were carried free. On the other hand Spanish Reds who escaped...
...Anarchists outstanding in fact if not in title in Barcelona are Buenaventura Durruti and Juan Garcia Oliver, both newly skyrocketed to fame from the looms of Barcelona textile plants. These smooth-shaven, intensely modern young men sufficiently dispose of the Victorian idea that Anarchism is an affair of terrifying beards. As a matter of fact, "The Father of Anarchism," the late great Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who died in 1865 had only a "Newgate Frill" (fringe of whiskers) around his placid countenance. The last of the internationally great Anarchist thinkers, Russian Prince Peter Kropotkin, who was the perfect prototype of "Bearded...
Getting down from Anarchist theory to Anarchist practice, the larger factories and industrial plants of Barcelona had in fact last week resumed production. They were running under councils of workmen and it remained to be seen whether these could continue to obtain raw materials, pay wages and effect profitable sales after the Spanish civil war is over. For the time being, every Barcelona factory capable of being converted to make war materials was running full blast, the Madrid Cabinet buying hand-over-fist everything it could get to arm its militia, paying with gold from the vaults of the Bank...
...Burgos, where General Mola has his headquarters, arrived the Spanish Catholic Party Leader José Maria Gil Robles, one of the main organizers of the Revolution against what he takes to be Marxism in Madrid and Anarchism in Barcelona. After conferring with General Mola he emerged to sound this 100% Catholic keynote: "I am with Spain, and Spain is here...
...this! Vivo Cristo El Rey!" At Calaselles 18 Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God were slaughtered and in Valencia, while the Cathedral burned brightly, 30 secular priests were shot. In Malaga, 50 priests were executed by a machine gun squad. More determinedly irreligious than elsewhere in Spain, Barcelona mobs burned all but two churches in that city, ripped out religious paintings and statuary, tore open tabernacles and ground Sacred Hosts on the floor. Not content with such acts of sacrilege, Barcelona Reds wantonly dug up pious dead, either crucifying freshly buried bodies, as was done in the Monastery...