Any Spaniard, no matter what his politics, who was a member of the pre-civil-war Spanish Cortes is more than welcomed by the Leftist Government if he has never actually taken up arms against it and last week 170 of the original 473 Deputies gathered in Barcelona. A newcomer, who has never before attended sessions in Leftist territory, was Rightist Deputy Pedro Rico who was Mayor ("The Fattest Mayor in Europe") of Madrid when the war began.
To 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,"...
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