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...also killed in an accident, flying from Lisbon. Mola was among the first to recognize the leadership of Francisco Franco, who gave him command of practically the entire northern sector of Rightist activity. At the time of his death, Mola was responsible not only for the siege of Bilbao but for the siege of Madrid as well. With no capable successor to hand, Generalissimo Franco split Mola's command in two. To the Bilbao front went General José Fidel Davila, a desk officer who had been head of the "technical junta." Put in charge of the Madrid, Arag...
...morning of gentle reading out of Wodehouse in the House library a pleasant occupation but not soothing to the conscience of one so illprepared for examinations as I. To lunch at Dunster with G. where the Spanish war was removed from the outskirts of Bilbao to the shores of the Charles. G., very pious as usual, says that Franco will save Spain for Christianity. In which case I hope that the Moors will stay away from the graves of Ferdinand and Isabella to prevent any dangerous turning over on the part of the august corpses...
Bleeding from a head wound Pilot Leopold Galli, onetime first-string pilot in the French Air Corps, described how five Rebel pursuit ships dived at him as he approached Bilbao along the coastline at about 600 ft. Their bullets halted his port engine, wounded pilot and a woman passenger. Not pausing to let down his wheels, he dove for a pancake landing in a field...
Their sympathies aroused by the removal of 4,000 Basque refugee children from Bilbao to England last fortnight (TIME, May 31), a group of U. S. liberals revealed last week that they had formed an American Board of Guardians for Basque Refugee Children and were planning to import 500 young Basques to the U. S. Leaders in this movement of mercy were onetime New Dealer Gardner Jackson, New York's representative Caroline O'Day, Retiring President Mary Emma Woolley of Mt. Holyoke College, Professor James Thomson Shotwell of Columbia University. A French ship was reported...
...England, Laborites and Protestant churchmen had been surprised and irritated by Roman Catholics who suggested that the 4,000 youngsters arriving at Southampton from Bilbao should be placed in Catholic homes, on the ground that most Basques are Catholic. In the U. S. last week, a different Catholic reaction met the O'Day-Woolley-Shotwell project. The U. S. hierarchy and Catholic press have had trouble enough explaining away the alliance between the Catholic Basques and the Godless "Reds" of Madrid. Making a fuss over 500 young Basques in the U. S. would, said U. S. Catholics, curry favor...