“…001-0206-001 RESULTS OF THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS HELD IN SPAIN ON THE 16th FEBRUARY 1936 Number of votes obtained: Parties of the Left and Basque Nationalists ................. 4,838,449 Parties of the Centre ...................... 449,320 Parties of the Right ..................... 3,996,931 Number of Deputies: Republican and Workers' Parties: Socialist ............... 89 Republican Left ................ 84 Republican Union ..................... 37 Catalonian Esquerra .................. 36 Conununists....................... 16 Basque Nationalists ....................... 10 Marxists Unification Block (Trotskyists) 1 Sindicalists ... ... ... .. 1 Federalists ... ... ... .. 1 Left Independents ........... 2 277 Parties of the Right: Monarchists ............... 12 Catalonian Lliga ...... 12 C.E.D.A. …”

“…The P.O.U.M. organisation, a part of which admittedly followed the Trotskyist leadership, and which was known for its attacks on the Government, has long since beon silenced. …”

“…Prieto is resisting them insofar as the army is concerned but is leaving them a free hand in Barcelona for their "suppression" of "Trotskyists" etc (cf. case of Nin, Marc Rein, etc.) …”