SPAIN: On the Road to Madrid

SPAIN On the Road to Madrid

The feuding factions of Spain's opposition-in-exile, enormously heartened by the Big Three's slap at Franco (TIME, Aug.13), took a long stride down the road to Madrid. In Mexico City, now the capital of the Spanish emigration, all major parties last week agreed to recognize ex-Cortes President Diego Martinez Barrio as Provisional President of the Republic of Spain.

The Spanish emigrĺs are divided into some ten political groups. Their political hopes and hates are embodied in two juntas and three men:

¶Dr. Juan Negrin, Republican Spain's last Premier, who has heretofore claimed to be the head...

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