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...frontal assault on Teruel itself, heavily fortified by the Rightists for over a year. Instead they sent from north & south two columns accompanied by tanks and planes to nip the line of communications behind the city. By the fourth day Teruel was surrounded, despite counter-attacks from the garrison of 60,000 Rightists, despite attempts of Generalissimo Franco to force relief troops through. Into the snowy streets of Teruel marched ten hostages released by the attackers to carry a promise of amnesty to all civilians and Rightists who would surrender by 9 a. m. on the following morning. Nobody surrendered...
...answered. In this Phoenix issue it is interesting to note that many of the contributors deprecate, in notes about the reprinting of their early productions, the immaturity now exposed to view. They may be regarded in general as their own severest critics. The exceptions are Walter Lippmann and Oswald Garrison Villard who stand up in their boots and offer no apologies--Lippmann for his defense of the English Suffragettes whose cause was not yet won, Villard for his praise of journalism as "A Career for Patriots". Is it that journalists arrive earlier at maturity than others? Certainly Villard's article...
...Department of State; Russell C. Lefling-well, member of J. P. Morgan and Company; Frank L. Polk, acting Secretary of State 1918-19; Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., '09, author and politician; William H. Standley, former chief of Naval Operations; Raymond Gram Swing, correspondent in Berlin during the War; and Oswald Garrison Villard '93, former editor of the Nation...
Writing rather than acting is the line which they both intend to follow both having belonged to the Advocate here. Brown won the Young Poet's Prize given by Poetry Magazine in 1935, and last year received the Garrison poetry prize here. A play in verse by him was considered by the Dramatic Club for its Fall production. Amussen wrote sonnets which were published in the Advocate...
...arranged primarily for French correspondents but New York Timesman George Axelsson managed to get there first and snoop around on his own for four days, then spent three on the conducted tour. London's Laborite Daily Herald insisted the French correspondents were "duped" when they saw no Italian garrison, the Herald's Paris office continuing to see a garrison of 30,000. Mr. Axelsson in an uncensored dispatch to the Times agreed with the French correspondents that there is no Italian garrison but an Italian and German aviation personnel of 500 and some 100 planes. "Majorca still...