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    "ocrText": "licana (Republican Union), and Partido Federalista (Federalist Party). Their appeal\nalways has been principally to the white-collar classes and liberal intellectuals.\nThe Spanish Republican leadership in exile has been distinguished from\nthat of the other leftist parties by its refusal to participate in attempts to solve the\nSpanish problem through any means other than direct restoration of the Republic.\nThere are indications that some of them now are prepared to modify this die-hard,\nlegalistic attitude should other opposition elements form an effective coalition.\nMembers of the three Republican parties have formed two loosely organ-\nized clandestine \"blocs\" in Spain, known as the ARE (Alianza Republicana Española\nor Spanish Republican Alliance) and the Bloque Republicano (Republican Bloc). The\nformer advocates the restoration of democracy in Spain by means of a plebiscite, while\nthe latter desires the re-establishment of the Republic under the 1931 Constitution.\n(5) The Regional Parties.\nAnother type of movement which has always had great vitality, despite\nsevere repression by successive governments, is that for regional autonomy and a reduc-\ntion of the centralizing authority of Madrid. It is manifest particularly among the\nCatalans and Basques, and, to a lesser extent, among the Galicians. These proponents\nof a federalized Spain are part of the Spanish Left because the Right, advocating the\nprinciple of centralized authority, has always uncompromisingly opposed their aspira-\ntions. In the social and economic sense most Basque and Catalan nationalist leaders\nare moderates or even rightists, but it was the Republic which granted Catalonia and\nthe Basque provinces a certain measure of autonomy, whereas Franco has banned even\ntheir regional languages, except as folklore.\nLinguistic and historical diversities, geographical barriers, and conflicting\neconomic interests have given Catalan and Basque nationalism considerable inherent\nstrength, especially during the past half century. Much of the effective political power\nof these movements has been dissipated, however, by the diversity of parties seeking to\nrepresent each region's aspirations. As the seats of Spain's most important industrial\ncenters, they also are strongholds of the labor movements.\n(6) The Republican Government-in-Exile.\nThis body was established in Mexico on 17 August 1945 and moved to\nFrance the following winter. It bases its authority on a quorum of deputies elected\nto the Spanish Cortes in 1936, whose popular mandate was considered by many leftists\nto be still in force because no authentic free elections had been held since. This\nGov-\nernment-in-exile has been weakened by several crises and reorganizations caused by\nthe questions of cooperation with the opposition monarchists and of inclusion of\nCommunist representation. The Communist Party is presently excluded. The Social-\nists and certain other leftist groups have withdrawn voluntarily, so that only the three\nRepublican parties now participate. These representatives, moreover, appear at the\npresent time to be carrying on the Government-in-exile mainly for the purpose of pre-\nserving its existence as a symbol of the legal institution of the Republican Government,\npending the time when the Spanish people will be able freely to express their choice as\nto the form of government under which they wish to live.\n16"
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