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Last week from his temporary capital at Valencia President Azana of the Spanish Republic made another plea to the democratic countries of the world to come to the aid of Spain. He remarked that although while Madrid was held by the Loyalists Great Britain and France, along with the other "neutral" nations, would give that city no aid, he expected a different situation to prevail in the event the capital fell into rebel hands. President Azana lacked imagination. Now these self-styled "neutrals" will not have to wait until the defenders of Madrid are routed. Recognition by Germany and Italy...
...lucky hit by a rebel bomber on a reported Russian freighter unloading at Cartagena seemed to prove Britain's assertion that Russia was supplying tanks, artillery and planes to Spain's Red Government, but practically none of this material last week reached the Madrid front. President Manual Azana of Spain and other Cabinet officers had fled fortnight ago to Barcelona and this week the London Times indicated that Premier Largo Caballero's jig was up, thus: "Great Britain now considers with less hesitation the prospect of recognizing the Government of Franco inasmuch as the Madrid Government...
...dominated by Red militia and "People's Tribunals'' similar to those which asserted themselves during the French Revolution, the fagade of the Republic was maintained. It crumbled as Irun fell and the Reds grew desperate. Almost a prisoner in his own Presidential Palace, scared Don Manuel Azana appointed as Premier last week not Spain's moderate No. 1 Socialist Leader Indalecio Prieto (TIME, Sept. 7), but the extreme radical No. 2 Socialist Leader Francisco Largo Caballero who has spent most of his time in recent weeks dressed in blue overalls fighting with the Red militia amid...
...first air bombs of Spain's civil war to fall upon Madrid came thudding and blasting down last week. Later the corpulent figure of President Manuel Azana was seen leaving the capital, as he said, "to inspect our glorious Government forces in the field...
...Revolution were by last week in great part not Army detachments at all but civilian Socialists, Anarchists and Communists, male and female, for whose benefit the President had opened the arsenals of Spain and handed out some 500,000 rifles, pistols and small arms. In so doing Don Manuel Azana claimed to remain wholly Republican, but he also provided Spain with a problem in civilian arms-toting which it may take years to solve...