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...celebration" of the second anniversary of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's dictatorship, Spanish Rightist aviators last week dropped tens of thousands of quarter-pound loaves of bread over the hungry Leftist cities of Madrid and Barcelona. Believing they had pulled off a stunt calculated to persuade Leftists that a Rightist victory would mean a full stomach, Rightist propagandists announced that Madrid's share of the bread, safely floated to the ground in makeshift parachutes, had been 178,000 loaves. Later, ending a week's pause, Rightist batteries west of Madrid resumed their futile shelling of the city...
...Barcelona, the official Leftist newsorgan Vanguardia warned that Portuguese colonies may go where the Sudetenland has gone unless something is done to check "the new iniquity now incubating within the heads of the dictators of European policy." Vanguardia followed this by making friendly overtures to Portuguese Dictator Salazar, who ever since the Spanish war began has sided with General Franco, encouraging German and Italian freighters and war craft to use Portuguese facilities in taking troops and supplies to Spanish Rightists. Keynoted Vanguardia unexpectedly: "All Spaniards...
...Spanish Leftists think they can make friends with Rightist Salazar, they may have reason to think they can make friends with Rightist Franco. In Paris last week, agents of the Leftist Government disclosed that a scheme to partition Spain-rejected by Barcelona-had been brought up at the Munich parley. During the Czechoslovak crisis General Franco showed himself definitely cool to Germany. Berlin was enraged by an announcement from Burgos that it would remain neutral in case of a European war. This week the Rightist Spanish Government announced that it is "preparing immediate repatriation" of 10,000 Italian troops...
Thus, had the bombing of Barcelona continued at this maximum intensity for even one full week, both the total weight of bombs dropped and the total casualties in this city would have considerably exceeded what all England suffered in its worst 95 weeks of actual war. Measured thus coldly, the "horrors of bombing'' have increased in 20 years nearly...
...Central London at all but on the traffic jams around it," warns Professor Haldane. "In Spain, at any rate, the German airmen seem to prefer to attack concentrated traffic, whether on wheel or on foot, rather than to bomb buildings, when they have the choice. ... In Barcelona one dives for the nearest shelter, leaving one's car in the street with the ignition key in place, so that it may be used by officials if necessary. ... I would far rather be in Central London during a big air raid than in a traffic jam on the Barnet Bye-Pass...