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January 1939

London News Agency Photos Ltd.

"Safe in France, staggering across the frontier carrying all that they could salvage from their Catalonian homes, these are some of the thousands driven out of Spain by Franco's Barcelona victory. The refugees are of a different type from the ordinary, and well shod, often smartly dressed, they have about them still, in flight, an air of some prosperity -- including the types pictured on the right -- but that make their plight no less touching."