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...staff early last week. This marked the first anniversary of the assassination in Madrid last year of Rightist Martyr No. i, onetime Finance Minister Jose Calvo Sotelo who was taken-for-a-ride by uniformed guards of the Madrid Government. Its head then as now was President Don Manuel Azana who last week was in Valencia. Few days after the Rightists mourned Calvo Sotelo, they celebrated with bullfights and fiestas last week the day on which they rose against Republicans, Socialists, Anarchists and Communists of Spain. Last week British-owned ore mines near Bilbao (now Rightist) had taken from them...
...Torres, who was the Republican President of Spain up to less than a year ago and today earns his living as a journalist in France, has now contributed to the Swiss Journal de Geneve his historic recollections of how things went in Madrid under the premiership of Manuel Azana who today is the Leftist Government's President of Spain...
Sirs: Remember that Russians and Russian equipment are largely responsible for General Miaja's "spunkiness" [TIME, Feb. 8]. Also bear in mind that the whole army had repudiated your "spunky" General, but that he was the only man that the Azana Government at that time could get to take the post of Minister of War. The only man on whom they could rely to do their bidding. The man who had pocketed the soldier's pay, and other little genteel acts along those lines. I quote from a letter smuggled out of Madrid: "It is certain that...
...Soviet Ambassador, Comrade Marcel Rosenberg, who appeared last week to be the most authoritative pro-Madrid figure next to its military defender, General Jose Miaja, a strict professional in horn-rimmed spectacles. The so-called Madrid Government had dispersed (TIME, Oct. 26, Nov. 16). Its president, Don Manuel Azana, a Republican, was in Barcelona last week and its Premier, Francisco Largo Caballero, a Marxian, was in Valencia with the rest of the Cabinet. In a manifesto they claimed to be supported by the Soviet Union and by the Mexican Republic...
...defense from abroad has been disregarded by the "neutral" countries on the grounds that Madrid was Lestist. It is convenient to forget that at the beginning of the revolt the Spanish government was a liberal republic, which swung toward Communism only under the tragic necessity of self-defense. President Azana, who still refuses to flee the burning house, is no more Marxist than Herbert Hoover or Stanley Baldwin, and far less so than Leon Blum. It is significant that Largo Caballero, the radical, did not become prime minister until the civil war had been waged for several months...