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...Leftist soldiers fled over the mountainous Pyrenees frontier into France, and of these some 4,000 were promptly shipped by the French back by rail to Loyalist territory. From Barcelona the U. S. diplomatic mission moved 20 miles nearer France on the coast. Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin called for 100,000 fresh volunteers for the People's Army, and Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto no longer spoke of victory but tried to persuade the French that unless they sent help the methodical advance of Generalissimo Francisco Franco might not stop in Spain but smash right on into the French...
...Barcelona, less than 100 miles away, to the microphone leaped Premier Dr. Juan Negrin, exhorting all Leftist Spain to "join our valiant stand against the barbaric invasion directed by the hangmen of Europe...
...with the French Republic by treaty, last week's Moscow proposals for an anti-Fascist conference were "accepted in principle" by Paul-Boncour. To French journalists he made it unmistakable that Paris will not act in the matter without London, which had already reacted negatively. When Premier Juan Negrin of desperate Leftist Spain went flying to Paris and begged Messrs. Blum & Paul-Boncour for aid last week he was cold-shouldered...
...keep the Rightist spies in Barcelona from tipping off Rightist bombers where the Deputies would meet, Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin first announced "indefinite postponement," then bundled the 170 into motor cars which streaked 30 miles out to the monastery of Montserrat, where once the Holy Grail was hidden, according to Spanish legend...
Keynoting, Premier Dr. Negrin promised to issue food cards to everyone in Leftist Spain to ensure equal nourishment for all; he thanked the Soviet Union and Mexico for their aid; flayed Hitler and Mussolini; promised to be "merciless with profiteers"; advocated "banking controlled by the Government" and climaxed: "the war may last six months, or a year or two, but however long it lasts our economic strength will not be exhausted...