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This was very nearly all that needed saying about the siege of Madrid, which reached its 31st day this week, but meanwhile Soviet munitions were arriving to bolster the cause of proletarian Premier Francisco Largo Caballero who fled with his Cabinet from Madrid to Valencia (TIME, Nov. 16), and the enormous quantity of gold which his adherents took from the Bank of Spain was beginning to have its effect. It was established last week that disguised Spanish fishing smacks, heavily armed, have been regularly running this gold to Marseille. The Bank of France has been buying it as fast...
...most authoritative pro-Madrid figure next to its military defender, General Jose Miaja, a strict professional in horn-rimmed spectacles. The so-called Madrid Government had dispersed (TIME, Oct. 26, Nov. 16). Its president, Don Manuel Azana, a Republican, was in Barcelona last week and its Premier, Francisco Largo Caballero, a Marxian, was in Valencia with the rest of the Cabinet. In a manifesto they claimed to be supported by the Soviet Union and by the Mexican Republic...
...foreign capitals last week arrived Madrid's first atrocity pictures of the war (see cut). Instead of making the mistake Italy made when she released unprintable pictures of Italian soldiers castrated by Ethiopians (TIME, Oct. 28, 1935), the Caballero Cabinet, sagely advised by Ambassador Rosenberg, released printable pictures of attractive children killed by White air raids without being horribly mangled...
Meantime Fugitive Premier Francisco Largo Caballero's Radical Cabinet, from their refuge in Valencia, rushed food and ammunition back to their Madrid comrades by railroad, for a successful sally by the Red militia had resulted in effective communications being reopened between Madrid and the seacoast. As 40 new Red planes of an unmistakable French pattern roared over the Capital, thousands rushed into the streets to welcome them with hysterical cheers...
...government was a liberal republic, which swung toward Communism only under the tragic necessity of self-defense. President Azana, who still refuses to flee the burning house, is no more Marxist than Herbert Hoover or Stanley Baldwin, and far less so than Leon Blum. It is significant that Largo Caballero, the radical, did not become prime minister until the civil war had been waged for several months...