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...Socialist Francisco Largo Caballero, which left the No. 1 a clear field in Madrid last week to state for the first time what is the Government's program in case its Red militia defeat 80% of the Spanish army led by Generalissimo Francisco Franco and General Emilio Mola in a White (i. e., conservative) insurrection against Madrid (TIME, July...
...each per day, plus a meal ticket. We could eat on our tickets at the Ritz Hotel. Barcelona is one of the gayest spots today, because the Reds have rounded up so much talent." Stalemate- Elsewhere in Spain last week the armies of conservative Generalissimo Francisco Franco and General Emilio Mola continued fighting their bloody civil war with armed Radical militia of the Madrid Government which itself estimated that 95% of the officers and 80% of the men of Spain's Regular Army were engaged on the side of the Rebels. During the week General Mola requested journalists...
...front!" Franco and Mola, Soldiers of professional standing and technical proficiency are the leaders of the Revolution: short, stoutish, dynamic General Francisco Franco, Arabic-speaking onetime Commander of the Spanish Foreign Legion in Morocco whose brother Ramon is "The Spanish Lindbergh";* and slim, tortoise-spectacled, tenacious General Emilio Mola, the Cuban-born son of a captain in the traditionally non-partisan Civil Guard...
Vital spot in the civil war remained the snow-capped Guadarrama Mountains that guard Madrid on the north. There armies of 15,000 Loyalists under General Carlos Bernal and 20,000 Fascists under able General Emilio Mola sparred cautiously for the battle that may end the war. Surprise of the week was verification of the astounding story that when Spain's devious José Maria Gil Robles, Catholic reactionary, was Minister of War ten months ago, he and Fascist Generals Franco and Mola prepared for the present civil war by digging secret gun emplacements all along the Guadarrama ridge...
...bewildering news of Mussolini's march on Rome on Oct. 30, 1922, changing sides at the last moment, heroically jumping before the steam roller as it got under way, or simply waiting to see what was going to happen before they declared their allegiance. A strong liberal, Emilio Lussu had been an officer in the Italian Army during the War, was elected a Deputy from the province of Cagliari in Sardinia, soon found himself, apparently to his own surprise, a leader of the antiFascists in his own region...