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Last week, characteristically sparing no superlatives, Franklin published his autobiography* for armchair aficionados. And, characteristically, Franklin was far away from the literary tea set. He was in Spain making his debut as a teacher of young bullfighters, in the small (pop. 18,000) Andalusian city of Alcalá de Guadaira, eight miles from the famed bullfight center of Seville. Franklin had patched up the local bull ring, unused for 25 years, with $6,000 of his own money to provide an arena for his school...
Died. Niceto Alcalá Zamora y Torres, 71, first President of the second Spanish Republic (1931-36); after long illness; in Buenos Aires. A Monarchist turned Republican, Alcala Zamora became President after a bloodless revolution in 1931, was himself kicked out of office by leftists three months before the outbreak of civil war in 1936, was finally exiled by Franco...
Then Franco's police caught up with him. In prison at Alcalá de Henares, he and the other "politicals" were forced to go to Mass. One Sunday the priest delivered a sermon on the commandment No matarás (Thou shalt not kill). The prisoners murmured and the murmur rose to a roar: "No matarás! No matarás! No matarás!" The jailers decided that Sánchez had started it and gave him four months in solitary...
Refugees. Only one of the Republican leaders stayed to face the music. He was 70-year-old Julian Bestiero, who handed Madrid over to Franco and got a 30-year prison term for his courage. In France are ex-Presidents Niceto Alcalá Zamora and Manuel Azaña, ex-President Luis Companys of Catalonia, onetime Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, Generals Juan Sarabia and José Asensio, many others. Premier Juan Negrin and Foreign Minister Julian Alvárez del Vayo are in Mexico, as are some 6,000 of the more Leftist Republican supporters. Madrid's Savior, General...
Signer Mussolini's smooth answer was that his legionnaires, who had shed blood in the glorious Spanish campaigns, surely could not be expected to depart before they had marched down Madrid's Gran Via and Calle de Alcalá, along with 500,000 Spaniards, in a final salute to El Caudillo. And Italy could surely not be held responsible for Dictator Franco's delays. Last week the British and French began to suspect that Il Duce and El Caudillo were giving them the runaround, that Italian soldiers might remain in Spain just as long as Dictator Mussolini...