It was noticeable, however, that thetrams did not
start running.
But from now on the whole atmosphere was
changed.
Meanwhile the jailswere already full and
overflowing. As usual, completely innocent people were beingarrested owing to police
bungling. The fact that at this point there wasresistance probably slowed the
process down. Many people were agreeably surprised when there was norioting on i
May.
Surely I should be politically suspect, coming from
the P. Asthough there wasnt enough of that kind of thing at the front! But it was
with a sort of amazement that I watched them strolling to andfro. There were some
ugly wrangles in the hotel lounge. That afternoon there was a kind of
armistice.
One or two foreign women hurriedly regularizedtheir
position by marrying Spaniards.
Was it any kind ofcoup detat or revolutionary
attempt?
But it does not follow that they were planning
ageneral attack on the C.
Like everyone who was in Barcelona atthe time. The
point caneasily be settled by referring to La Batalla of the date
named.
In various parts of the town bands of Civil Guards
and P.
Afterwards, of course, political capital was made
out of it in the usualmanner. The trouble sprang naturally out of the Governments
order to the Anarchiststo surrender their arms.
The people behind the barricades wereordinary
C.
Secondly, as to the after-effects of the fighting.
The people behind the barricades wereordinary C.
Surely I should be politically suspect, coming from
the P.
Thompson said promptly:Im going to keep out of
this.