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Best evidence that on the Rightist side things were not as they should be came when wily Juan March, ex-smuggler, tobacco king and munitions salesman, more recently financial angel to Insurgent Spain, hotfooted it out of San Sebastian and went to earth in Biarritz. Señor March's comings & goings-especially goings-in & out of Spain have long been one of the most reliable barometers of the Spanish political weather. When trouble is brewing, Señor March is generally found in neutral territory...
...fall was no surprise. Fortnight ago Leftist officials began deserting the town for France and early last week six aviators, the last of Gijón's air force, reached France. Five reached Biarritz's airport, the sixth crashed on the beach...
...attack on Bilbao was temporarily halted after a bloody hand-to-hand with rifle butts and knives. Comparatively quiet too were all the other fronts. But overhead hell was popping. The week started with the shooting down, by Rightists near Bilbao, of a French transport plane carrying passengers from Biarritz to the besieged city. France had little cause for complaint. The transport, owned by the Air Pyrenees Line, had been running the blockade for weeks trusting to its top speed of 230 m.p.h. and the pilot's ability to dive into clouds to get it past the Rightists...
Died. Colonel Sam Park, 79, U. S. vice consul at Biarritz, France since 1920, at a $1-a-year salary; at Biarritz. A retired Texas lumber & oilman who called loafing "the end and aim of my existence," he complained on recent visits to Manhattan that it took "the hardest kind of struggle" to reach a golf course...
...Christmas Eve the "Yankee Squadron" of famed U. S. aviators headed by Bert Acosta, pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight, at the last minute abandoned plans for a whoopee party with their wives at Biarritz, swank French resort across the Spanish frontier. They decided that they would rather raid Burgos, Generalissimo Franco's headquarters. The hundreds of incendiary bombs that they dropped on White hangars and munition dumps they jokingly described as "Messages of Christmas Cheer for the boys in Burgos...