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SPAIN: State of Alarm

It should have been a sober impressive moment when the first constitutionally elected Cortes since the Second Republic assembled in Madrid last week and took their seats in the Congreso de los Diputados. But nobody had time to pay any attention to them for all hell was breaking loose in Madrid, Badajoz, Valencia, Murcia, Granada, Teruel and the north.

All across the map of Spain little bands of anarchists and syndicalists were declaring general strikes, raising red and black flags, setting fire to convents and churches, taking pot shots at Civil Guards and...

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