"Stillborn," "reactionary," "suspended in the air," "counter-revolutionary," were some of the epithets flung last week by the Anarcho-Syndicalists. most extreme of Spain's Leftist groups, at the newly-installed radical Government of Socialist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin (TIME, May 24). Stocky, 48-year-old Dr. Negrin— born in the Canary Islands, educated in Germany, onetime professor of biology, Finance Minister in the Largo Caballero Cabinet—was not disturbed by these howls. The crisis forced on his predecessor's Government by a revolt of Anarcho-Syndicalists in Barcelona had been smoothly overcome, and Dr. Negrin now had under him...
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