FRANCE: Mass Torture?

When the defeated Loyalist Catalan Army was pushed over the Spanish frontier into France, one of the greatest exoduses of modern times took place. France had on her hands her greatest refugee problem. The way that problem was handled had developed, by last week, into a world scandal.

Although amply warned of the huge human tide approaching, the French Government made few advance arrangements to receive the refugees. It had thought it would be a matter of only a few weeks before most refugees would return to their homeland. Indeed, one of the reasons advanced for quick recognition of Generalissimo...

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