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...Spain further volunteers and ammunition (TIME, March 1). Last week the committee agreed how best to do this. The coast of Spain was divided into sectors, and part of the international fleet was assigned to each. To Russia was assigned patrol of the northwest sector of the Bay of Biscay, though it was clear that her few creaky vessels surviving from Tsarist days could never stand up to those storm-lashed seas. Russia refused the assignment, "saved face" by demanding to patrol part of the Mediterranean though it was equally clear that Dictator Mussolini would never allow Russian ships...
...Gibraltar to the beginning of the Portuguese coastline. Over the Spanish-Portuguese land frontier 130 "international observers" will keep watch. French and British ships jointly will pick up the blockade on the northwest Spanish seas at Vigo where the Spanish coastline begins again, will patrol the Bay of Biscay around to the French frontier. France has already closed its Spanish land frontier, has posted gendarmes and military police along the French side of the Pyrenees. Spain will thus be completely ringed in like a disease area...
Into the Bay of Biscay belligerently steamed six German warships, attempting by the menace of their guns to make the Spanish Reds release the Nazi freighter Palos which they had seized and interned at Bilbao. Amid much bluster on both sides, the Nazis made "unalterable demands," the Reds "unalterable refusals," and the little Palos became a bone over which could snarl the mightiest dogs of war. Meanwhile a fresh White offensive surged completely into Madrid from the west, occupying the north station near the onetime Royal Palace, then was swept completely out again by the Reds...
Neutral military authorities, viewing the capture of Irun and San Sebastian, considered that Generalissimo Franco and General Mola were now in North Spain strategically just about where they had expected to be seven weeks ago. They had counted on commanding the Bay of Biscay from the first. When this region failed to join the Whites, the entire Mola-Franco plan for a quick southward thrust over the mountains to take Madrid was held up, since to attempt it would have been to risk attack from the rear. Thus this week there was a sense in which not only Premier Largo...
...Priests Hanged." When nine priests disguised as fishermen slipped from Spain over the Bay of Biscay to France last week and talked to correspondents, out went such headlines as SIX HUNDRED PRIESTS AND NUNS SLAIN BY ANARCHISTS. There was also the one about the 82-year-old Archbishop of Valladolid killed by a firing squad with his arms tied around the neck of a statue of the Virgin Mary fortnight ago. Last week the Archbishop arrived safely at Bordeaux. In Irun, which the White forces took after its Anarchist defenders burned it (TIME, Sept. 14), no confirmation could...