Barcelona Faces Front.

For a demonstration of the war's decreasingly revolutionary and increasingly nationalistic progress, one has only to look at Barcelona. In Barcelona the people have faced the more depressing aspects of war-economic maladjustment, hordes of refugees and consequent overcrowding, shortage of food and fuel during one of the coldest winters ever known, uninterrupted air bombardments, general disruption of social life--without any of the galvanizing factors of proximity to the front. In Barcelona the two mutually antagonistic, electric currents of the war are crossed--the military and the political. If there is a short circuit, it is in Barcelona that the sparks fly.