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As the Rightists approached the sea this week their thrust decapitated Leftist Spain, cutting off from the southern trunk in which are Valencia and Madrid the northern head in which is Barcelona. There this week Catalonia's greatest Leftist statesmen strove to prevent the Anarchists from staging one more grand massacre of white-collar people and any possible sympathizers with the Generalissimo. In Paris, where the French Government was in hourly, friendly touch with Barcelona, officials sighed: "Let us hope the Spanish war does not end as it began, with mass murder."