SPAIN: Red Flags

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This week in Spain the burning down of churches by Spanish Communists sporadically erupted; the Papal Nuncio went bustling around to see what could be done with the Republican Premier; the Gil Robles crowd in their newsorgan Ya professed to reveal that just over $200,000 yearly in money from Russia was passed around among Spain's proletariat.

To such charges the red-flag-waving Spanish marchers replied with roars of "Down with Fascism!" Except for the tradition that things always settle down in Spain, a struggle of the most profound nature might seem to have been joined last week. In Barcelona the Catalonians went about screaming that their Republic had already seceded from Spain, but that remained to be seen. Thus Carnival Week burst upon Spain and the revolutionary red-flag-marchers were caught up in a whirl of Spanish citizens gaily dancing and cavorting in the streets. For the time being Spain's crisis was snowed under with confetti.