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...mass of red, heaping ruins whose flames could be seen reflecting in clouds of smoke above the moutains for miles away. Many survivors took their carts, piled high with such household goods as could be saved, and crowded the roads all night long to the northern seaport town of Bilbao. But many, unable to get away, stayed round the burning town, lying on mattresses or searching for children and other relatives...
...next morning, April 28, 1937, papers all over the world reported that the Basque town of Guernica had been destroyed by German bombing planes flying for General Franco in his rebel offensive to take the Bilbao front...
...something else that came to the White House had none of the happy sights or sounds of peacetime. There were newspapers that told of the look in the eyes of women who last week boarded the Magallanes, a Spanish ship bound from New York for Bilbao. Some were in tears, some stolid. They were Germans-142 women, 14 children, 35 men-sailing to the Fatherland in what appeared to be a general evacuation. One woman wrote, desperately: "Hitler has ordered our husbands who are members of the Bund to come back to Germany at once. We had to sell...
...Puerta del Sol, Madrid's hub, lie the desolate ruins of suburbs where fighting raged for more than two years. The $50,000,000 University City is a pile of rubble, and in West Park, where trenches still remain, only 33 trees are left standing. In Barcelona and Bilbao, Spain's first and second seaports, the destruction is almost as great. The Government has estimated that it will take at least ten years to carry out the reconstruction program already planned...
...inconsistency in boasting (Loyalist communiques substantiated the boast) that four Italian divisions (about 40,000 men) were heroically conquering Catalonia. These divisions included famed Black Shirt detachments. Italian correspondents wrote from Spain that among the Italian soldiers were veterans of the offensives of Málaga, Bilbao, Santander, Aragon...