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...centre of the city. Taking his place on a stand on Barcelona's large and battered Via Diagonal, now appropriately renamed Avenida del Caudillo (Avenue of the Chief) for El Caudillo Franco, the Generalissimo reviewed units of the seven Army corps that had taken part in the Catalonian offensive...
...greatest mass flights in modern history came to an end one afternoon last week when 40,000 soldiers of the once-fine Catalonian Army and a few straggling civilian refugees evacuated the Spanish border village of Puigcerda, crossed into France and closed the last gate to northern Loyalist Spain behind them. A few fanatical anarchists committed suicide by staying behind and fighting the Insurgents to the end, but at exactly 2:40 p. m. Friday, Feb. 10, a handful of Rebel troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco nailed their red & gold banner to a telegraph pole at the edge...
...time the Rebel advance contingents had reached the border posts last week more than 100,000 civilian refugees had made their way into France. The 150,000 defeated Catalonian soldiers swelled the refugee ranks to far more than the backward, rural Pyrenees district of France could handle. Camps had been built for the internment of the Loyalist fighting forces but these makeshift shelters were able to hold only 100,000. The rest of the soldiers and most of the civilians were forced to camp in the open...
...From London came a report that the British had been asked by the Loyalists to act as intermediaries. From Perpignan came a dispatch saying that President Azaña opposed further resistance. He was said to have split with Dr. Negrin and to have gone to Paris. The Catalonian Government was said to have declared the war at an end as far as it was concerned, which...
...been the thought that the Rebels' friends have been constructing fortifications on the French-Spanish frontier. Last week the Generalissimo informed France that Italian troops would not be allowed to operate in the frontier sector, and at the same time withdrew an Italian militia brigade from the Catalonian shambles. He also invited a French military mission to come and see for itself that no fortifications in Spain menaced France. They came, they saw, they went home satisfied...