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Last week the People's Army was in full disorganized retreat northward through what remained to them of Catalonia-an area about the size of Connecticut. Some brigades had 120 men left out of a normal complement of 1,500. Some companies had only 25 rifles and no machine guns. And as a further sign of demoralization, behind it the People's Army left a large part of what stores of food and gasoline remained...
...fascist triumph in Catalonia appears to be beyond question. ... It seems to me sure that the Spanish tragedy will end its days of active war very soon...
...world that Barcelona had smashed the local Fascist uprising in July 1936 with speed and vigor not duplicated anywhere else in Spain. The revolutionary Anarchists, Communists and Socialists-who had learned their discipline and their politics in the only large industrial centre in the country-proceeded to clear Catalonia of Franco forces and chase them half way across Aragon...
...cross the French border into Catalonia at one time required passage through three independent sets of custom officers-Madrid's, Catalonia's, the Anarchists'. Supplies earmarked for transit through Catalonia for the Central Government were often waylaid...
...Catalan front in Aragon became scandalously inactive. So conspicuous was Barcelona's failure to wage effective warfare against the Fascists, either industrially or militarily, that a favorite, bitter Loyalist quip was that Catalonia, alone of 27 European nations, had lived faithfully up to the non-intervention agreement not to help either side in the Spanish War. In May 1937, Anarchists tried to seize Barcelona and the Central Government, then at Valencia, had to send troops to Catalonia to restore order...