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Though the Workers Defense League recently managed to hold a small Jersey City meeting in an abandoned church with Norman Thomas and Oswald Garrison Villard as speakers, a C. I. O. meeting was an impossibility. One of Mayor Hague's speakers proclaimed at last week's rally: "I have lived here all my life and have never seen the day when I couldn't say anything I had on my mind." But next day a New York Herald Tribune reporter searched the city without avail for a man in the street who would talk for quotation about...
Three days after Correspondent Matthews had returned to Barcelona to put his story on the wire the final break in the Rightist defense of Teruel's garrison came when the president of Teruel's Red Cross, Jesus Vinyas, sent a message asking that his wounded might be evacuated, Rightist civilians allowed to return to their homes or given passports to go abroad...
...Lloyd K. Garrison '19, Madison, Wisconsin; Dean of University of Wisconsin Law School, former special assistant to U. S. Attorney General and Chairman of National Labor Relations Board; former Director of Harvard Alumni Association...
...danger of a surprise Rightist offensive at any other point for months to come. Psychologically it was just as important to Leftist morale. By a swift, well-executed triple-column movement Leftist arms had captured the strongest point yet in the Rightist line, a town elaborately fortified by its garrison for over a year...
...drifts of snow to recapture Concud, win La Muela, another strategic hill not quite so important as Mansueto, and reach the gates of the city itself by Saturday night. At this point, exuberants in Salamanca were proclaiming a complete Rightist victory, publishing detailed descriptions of the relief of the garrison who had doggedly fought for their lives in the Cathedral, the Seminary and the Civil Government Building. Actually the Rightist wave broke at the city gates. Generalissimo Franco, following Leftist tactics in reverse, sent another column cross-country to retake Campillo and Villastar. Thus at week...