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The Committee to Aid SpanishiDemar&hy%m €$f5Q§g as 413 Manning Chambers, Toronroo “fF§dQ November 30;3l957. ” g“

*0 Since the last release a 40 page report of the Conference has been issued. ’Additional help has been secured for the office and itinerary work so that we hope to make a release weekly in the future. ' ~

OVER pSEAS NEWS It is reported that the total number of Rebel prisoners and deserters in the

Northern.Aragon Sector alone has amounted in the last three weeks to more than 1000s It is believed that this is proof of the unwillingness of those recruited

a by the insurgent military authorities to fight for the cause of Fasciam.

Italian planes are still coming to he rebels. Government aviators who carried out a daylight raid on two of the principal Majorca aerodromes recently confirmed the presence there of a larger number of bombers and fighting machines *1ah ever before. An.Italian.aviator captured during the past few days on the .rag0n front declared that he had only arrived two weeks previously and that he elonged to the regular Italian Air Force. It is these planes and their pilots which are a direct testimony of Italy's observance of the Non—Intervention Pact.

KATE WMANGAN arrears, .

There is not a town or village in Catalonia which has not its corresponding child colony. There are 11 colonies in Baroelonia and its immediate neighborhood.

Wiyuda Infantil" (Child Welfare) is taking care of about 3,000 children but all the mnnioipalitors of the towns take responsibility for homes when they have M them organized. vault- -.e‘,.ip ,. h- -

There are over 25,000 refugee children from.Madrid, Malaga, and the North now in Catalonia, and these unfortunate people are still streamdng in. Theg.. _ VGeneralidad"v(0atalan Government) are now caring for more than a half million7 ' refugees. pdofthis must be added $36 expense of transport, the upkeep of hostels, dining rooms, food; clothing; shoeéwénd soap.

Nfiss Magnan also gives very interesting*accounts of the homes in the

Pyrenees, of experiences_of the refugees on their long_journeys to their destination, of the_way they are cared for on their ddurnejs andjsaysfin closing ~;Wone cannot‘ help but remark on the generous and wholeeheartedfspirit in which the Catalans have.shdQl§€red the heavy and ever increasing prdtiemiorjreragees.1jrhay received the first refugees last Autumn from Iran and they are now welcoming vast multitudes from.the North.g V .

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\ . @heimajorifivof these people are not ahle to.woih. they are old, infindf. or children’ Lp. g. .‘ v A .. , .L M .-_ . %. i._t,.. q

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For the normal population every where food is now rationed. EWEnymhemewin»., Spain it will ha a hard WinterfiflmawmLHLfi?@wM.fflw.@we with the Catalan authorities to enable them to feed, clothe and give the medical

'attention necessary for all these unfortunate people.p

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"There cannot be, in all the world. any place like the City 0i'Madrid today-

lt has teen under siege for nearly a year.f lYou read about besieged cities*in" dmedieval days and you say; how awful things must have been, thank goodness they dofn?.ft.phappenpncvw._. has napplenea and Vgoesl happening infg1\![adridi_. alcity andfasbéaufiiful and as modern as Washington. iAnd tfia Stifiétfi ere 0IOWd@a§ith9“§ peepfé at about their early living; it i$n’t”tense nor hysterical, what they have ism mos-re. it isthe suresteaay Spiriffigflftheuee v-rho Wha#th€3fi€h’° is about

and who know they must win. 0

p ’ ‘ spitie of all the evacuation. there are still'at.mil1iionpgipeople-here;,iol ‘l Xesterday I saw a wohenpwho lives inTthe poorest quarter. “It had b9Gfl”b0mb§d.tWi0e by the Fascists. her house is one of the few left standing. fShe‘refuses to leaveg Every six weeks she says her husband has 4B”hours leave from the“frontil Naturally; he wants to case home and see her and the children.~. 0 0