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Leftist officials said this was a Spanish battle of Jutland,* would end Franco's threat to blockade the Loyalist east coast. Jubilantly announced Foreign Minister José Giral Pereira at Barcelona: "The engagement is as important as was the taking of Teruel.† It inaugurates a new phase in the war activities of the navy." The enraged Rightists retaliated by sending out war planes which attacked Cartagena five times, raining bombs on the Government naval base. Leftists denied suffering any serious damage...
...Barcelona a Cabinet spokesman said portentously: "We have no fear of our ability to defend ourselves militarily pending the clearing up of international problems." Presided over by President Azana, the Cabinet had meanwhile taken in the greatest secrecy what was openly called "a most important decision, which may affect world history...
...return to revolutionary principles was at hand, there was no indication of it in the U. S. Communist Party. The Daily Worker appealed to patriotic sentiment by printing a picture of a capitalistic U. S. flag riddled by General Franco's bombers as it flew over Barcelona's Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. building. Meantime the two tiptop U. S. Communists, William Z. Foster and Earl Browder, had returned to Manhattan from Moscow, still talking collective security, which means support of Capitalist Franklin Roosevelt. Mr. Browder, who holds down the same official...
...down these vagaries with official posters exhorting civilians to evacuate Madrid, to bring food to Madrid, to be vaccinated, to stop talking and get down to business. All in all, no less than 4,000,000 posters have been printed in the lithographers' shops of Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona...
...capital of Loyalist Spain was recently moved to (1 Madrid, 2 Valencia, 3 Barcelona, 4 Toledo, 5 San Sebastian...