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...Leftists' International Brigades, some of which lost three-fifths of their men and most of their officers in the Aragón retreat, are now reformed for service in the Catalonian, northern half of Leftist territory, reported Sheean. The 15th Brigade, which includes the U. S. Lincoln-Washington battalion, the Canadian and British battalions, is now commanded by a Croat, Colonel Chopic. Its political commissar, John Gates, is a little soft-spoken union organizer from New York. "The Americans in the brigade are about 75% to 80% Communists-a much higher percentage than in other brigades. In the British...
...Catalonian front Rightist troops advanced 40 miles along the mountainous French border to within ten miles of the tiny State of Andorra. They controlled at week's end nine of the twelve main roads from Spain to France. Barcelona Leftists again purged suspected Rightist sympathizers, two cinema theatres being necessary to hold one night's haul. Leftist organ La Vanguardia philosophized that such measures "repugnant as they are to a spirit of liberalism, are justified by the circumstances...
...League of Nations an instrument of ''international political hygiene to prevent the growth of the diseases of Communism and Fascism." From Barcelona, where Dottoressa Montessori had been conducting a training school for teachers until hostilities caused her to leave last summer, came an excited cable from the Catalonian Government promising that 150 Montessori schools would soon be open for 60,000 young Catalans...
...Catalonian anarchists supporting the Leftist Government of Premier Dr. Juan Negrin asked leave to stage anti-Fascist rallies and parades on the first birthday of Spain's civil war last week, but were sternly repressed. Catalonia's President Luis Companys cared to risk no street riots among his Communist, Anarchist, Socialist and Republican supporters, and anyhow Leftist Spain was grimly straining every resource in its first large offensive...
Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia, a Spanish district so strongly Separatist that four years ago it won from Madrid a partial independence recently made complete (TIME, Aug. 31). Last week there was a chance that the Catalonian Communists may get the upper hand and establish a Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Likewise there was a chance that momentarily powerless Luis Companys, the Left Republican President of Catalonia, may regain control. But for the time being Barcelona was in the hands of Anarchists and its interesting condition could therefore be described as Anarchy...