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From the Leftist side in Spain, New York Times Correspondent Lawrence A. Fernsworth, temporarily in Marseille, reported last week that agents of the Leftist military police, dissatisfied with the slowness of civil judicial authorities in dispatching alleged members of Barcelona's "Fifth Column" (Franco supporters within the city), recently "started to take the law into their own hands by seizing prisoners at night and executing them in isolated spots. They had executed between 20 and 30 persons before their activities were ended...
...have your letter of April 18 in which you suggest that we put at the top of Mr. Fernsworth's dispatches the following...
From the managing editor of the Brooklyn Tablet, Catholic weekly, Managing Editor Edwin Leland James of the New York Times last week received a suggestion about the treatment of dispatches from his Barcelona correspondent, Lawrence A. Fernsworth. Gruff "Jimmy" James replied promptly...