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About half way between Madrid and Barcelona lies the city of Saragossa, held by Rightists since the beginning of the war and heavily fortified. Blazing into sudden action last week went armies estimated at 200,000 on a side, to start the greatest battle of the Spanish war to date, a battle which correspondents of neither side were allowed to attend...
General Pozas has already done yeoman service in restoring order in Barcelona and trying to get a Catalan army to take the field. At a bound the capture of Belchite set Sebastian Pozas right among the hierarchy of the Valencia Government, seemed to make him a figure very much to be counted on in the next few months. This was hard news for extremists. Sebastian Pozas won his general's sash long before the civil war. Privately he hates anarchists as much as he hates foreign fascists...
Rebellions. Word continued to seep out to the world last week of the great unpopularity of the war among humble people on both sides. Reports, never effectively denied, reached Hendaye of a revival of street fighting in Barcelona and other Leftist towns. Again & again stories came up to Madrid of abortive rebellions in Granada, Motril and Toledo. It was said that Italian troops, held in hearty disdain by Spanish Rightists since their disastrous defeat at Guadarrama in March (TIME, April 5), their poor showing at Bilbao, had been ordered to Toledo to remain in reserve for the eternally discussed final...
...Mystery. A gruesome echo of a previous rebellion came from Madrid last week. Leader of the Anarchist P.O.U.M. (United Marxist Workers Party) largely responsible for the bloody Barcelona riots of May was one Andres Nin, at that time Counselor of Justice in the independent Catalan Government. When Valencia finally put the riots down, big Poum Nin and dozens of lesser Poums were quietly slipped into jail, then transferred to Madrid...
...great progress." British Author Philip Noel Baker (The Private Manufacture of Armaments) spoke fervently for international government. An enthusiastic delegate offered a resolution to make the League of Nations an instrument of ''international political hygiene to prevent the growth of the diseases of Communism and Fascism." From Barcelona, where Dottoressa Montessori had been conducting a training school for teachers until hostilities caused her to leave last summer, came an excited cable from the Catalonian Government promising that 150 Montessori schools would soon be open for 60,000 young Catalans...