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...communications cut, its food supplies, gone, its ammunition exhausted, the Loyalist Army disintegrated almost overnight into a disorganized rabble. As the Rebels pressed relentlessly on, a wild churning wave of soldiers and civilians, rushing for the border, rolled before them. Veterans of Belchite, Teruel, the Ebro campaigns carried their rifles, hauled machine guns and field pieces, even drove tanks up to the frontier, where they were confiscated. They were determined not to let General Franco capture any war weapons. At one point alone 4,000 were crossing the French border every hour. At another point a Loyalist Army band played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Police Job | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...roll of last week's homecomers. Among them: 25-year-old Brigade Commissar (political instructor) John Gates from Youngstown, Ohio; Sergeant Gerald Cook, office boy for the pinko Nation; Lieut. Manny Lancer, formerly of the Workers Alliance; Sergeant Thomas Page, a Manhattan Negro (wounded on the Ebro front): an lowan who became Captain Owen Smith; 20-year-old Nurse Rose Waxman of Manhattan. Saddest of the heroes was a lad whose parents met him at the dock, snatched off his purple military beret, hopped up & down on it, indignantly marched him home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boys from Brunete | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...mentioning on any front" but from the activity behind Insurgent lines last week it was evident that some front would soon be blazing. Despite the fact that snow blankets many sectors of the front and that many of his troops are war-weary after eight counteroffensives to retake the Ebro River salient. Generalissimo Franco is determined to throw everything he has into one Big Push before Britain's Prime Minister meets Premier Mussolini at Rome early in January. A Franco success, such as his smash-through to the Mediterranean last April, would give II Duce a good talking point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: The Big Push? | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Most likely spots for the Big Push are the Sagunto sector, where the Insurgent drive on Valencia was halted by the Loyalist counteroffensive on the Ebro four months ago, or the area around Lerida in the north, where an Insurgent break-through would place Franco within striking distance of Barcelona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: The Big Push? | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

United Pressman James I. Miller managed to buttonhole Rightist Spain's Francisco Franco last week at his field headquarters on the Ebro Front (see col. 2), asked him if he thought the war can now be ended by mediation. The General snapped: "There will be no mediation, because criminals and their victims cannot live together. ... I do not like to prognosticate when the fighting will cease. . . .We have already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: After the War | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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