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...weeks ago the British Government dispatched to the capitals of Spain's warring factions-Barcelona and Burgos-a closely printed, 50-page memorandum entitled: "The text of a proposed resolution reaffirming and extending the Nonintervention Agreement and provision for the withdrawal of foreign volunteers from Spain, for the grant in certain circumstances of belligerent rights to the two parties in Spain, and for the observation of the Spanish frontiers by land...
...Barcelona Government, after nearly a month of yielding stubbornly-held ground on the south side of Generalissimo Franco's salient-to-the-sea, last week hurled a whacking good offensive across the Ebro into the north flank of that salient. Shock troops for the advance were chiefly five columns of foreign Leftists, forming the spearhead of Barcelona's drive, under command of up-&-coming General Vicente Rojo. Soon wounded in the back by a bomb fragment was James Lardner, son of late Funnywriter Ring. In Manhattan, portly Leftpundit Heywood Broun announced that Ring Lardner was the only genius...
...much of Andalusia, in the south. Their chosen leaders in order of authority were General José Sanjurjo, Marquis del Riff, General Manuel Goded, General Francisco Franco. General Sanjurjo was killed in an airplane crash near Lisbon, General Goded was captured, imprisoned and executed when he failed to take Barcelona. No. 3 of the original slate - General Franco - became head of the Rightist Army. Meanwhile, in turbulent Leftist Madrid, Premier Casares Quiroga stepped down, to be succeeded, in a day of whirlwind Cabinet shiftings, first by the now-forgotten Diego Martinez Barrio, then by Republican José Giral Pereira...
...Barcelona, Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo called in French Ambassador Eirik Labonne, warned him that if the French and British continued to do nothing to stop Rightist bombing of Leftist cities Leftist Spain would start a system of reprisals. Employing the usual vague diplomatic language, canny Foreign Minister Alvarez dropped a hint that Leftist warplanes would bomb "places from which the raiders come," might concentrate on "distant objectives...
...Rightist aviators are Italians. Also well known is the fact that the principal Italian air base in Spain is on the island of Majorca. Big question of last weekend's war scare was whether Leftist Spain was threatening to bomb Italian cities like Genoa (400 miles from Barcelona) and Rome (550 miles) or simply Italian-controlled cities like Palma, Majorca...