Word: caballeros
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Only one last road from Madrid to the sea was open last week, the 294-mile railway to Valencia. Having cut off the Capital from all other avenues of succor or escape, the White Armies of Generalissimo Francisco Franco were advancing with such vigor that Premier Largo Caballero and his Cabinet were daily rumored, via Rebel sources, on the point of flight. Disciplined effectiveness suddenly appeared in the roving mobs of Premier Largo Caballero's proletarian militiamen. These have fought bravely enough time and again, but too often only in their own good time and place. This week they...
...Madrid, with advancing White Armies closing in all around and only some 30 miles away as the week opened, the facade of the "Spanish Republic" was noticeably crumbling. At Geneva last week the diplomatic representative of Premier Largo Caballero, "The Spanish Lenin," made shrill speeches about Democracy being at stake in Madrid, but uncensored dispatches brought by courier pictured the Capital as ruled in fact by proletarian Terror. Estimating that between 10,000 and 15,000 persons have been executed by Government firing squads in Madrid or simply butchered in their homes and on the streets by mobster adherents...
...appealed to have the Argentine cruiser Veinticinco de Mayo stand by at the Spanish port of Alicante, ready to rescue the President, his pretty young wife and other prominent Republicans from the expected fury of Madrid's proletariat. Dressed always in proletarian blue overalls, Premier Largo Caballero was said to be holding President Azaña virtually a prisoner. Desperate, the Spanish Cabinet issued a manifesto appealing to the "people of Madrid" to somewhat paradoxically "organize and perfect the defense of the Capital, so as to be prepared for somethings even so incredible as the capture of Madrid...
Today's war in Spain is unlike any previous struggle, with factors of which the Duke of Wellington never dreamed, such as fighting planes from technically neutral countries. For every German with Generalissimo Franco there seemed to be a Russian with Premier Largo Caballero. The newly arrived Soviet Ambassador Comrade Marcel Rosenberg rode about Madrid importantly in a Cadillac limousine while the Red Militia cracked out executions. Nevertheless, with Generalissimo Franco's forces advancing on Madrid at a rate of five miles per day, another White army under Colonel Juan Yague captured the former Red Militia General Staff...
...weeks of Red mining and sapping had stowed away under the rocky base of the Alcázar not the "20 tons of TNT" but something like four tons of miscellaneous explosives equipped with electric detonators 200 feet long. In Madrid the Cabinet, dramatically convened, agreed with Premier Largo Caballero that they must take what they called "the terrible decision" to order the detonating buttons pressed. All citizens of Toledo were ordered to quit their homes lest they go up in the GRAND BLAST, advertised to kill every one of the 1,400 cadets and 400 women and children...