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Originally the Provisional President of this regime was white-bearded General Miguel Cabanellas, but on the 76th day of the war he administered the oath of President to Generalissimo Francisco Franco of the White Armies. These are a small, professional force assisted by some German and Italian aviation and supplies. Up to last week they had occupied 28 of the 50 provinces of Spain. Although everywhere outnumbered hundreds to one by the Spanish proletariat, they had not up to this week been ousted by popular uprising from any important area which they have occupied. Of the 68 branches...
...Madrid will fall in from three to five days," predicted its besieger, Generalissimo Franco of Spain's White Army fortnight ago. Last week, still outwardly confident and smiling, the Generalissimo in effect admitted that the Red militia of Madrid had fought his Whites to a bloody standstill when he issued this order to his officers: "Make no further attempt to take Madrid until our present positions have been consolidated...
Last week Nanking was roaring at the latest exploit of Chinese Foreign Minister Chang Chun in "kidding" the Imperial Japanese Government. Tokyo had demanded that Japanese troops be permitted to join the anti-Communist forces of Chinese Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in any Chinese province into which these may be sent (TIME, Nov. 9). To this demand China's Chang replied that, while it would be premature for China to grant such rights to Japan in all Chinese provinces, the Chinese Government would permit Japanese military co-operation in assisting it to exterminate Communism and banditry...
...that Madrid had fallen, and although what they sent could not be printed, editors were kept posted by the State Department in Washington and the British Foreign Office. Madrid's defenders appeared to have more airplanes and more ammunition than anyone in the journalistic camp had expected. Cautious Generalissimo Franco, with the Red Militia finally driven back across the Manzanares River, which opposed the Whites like a gigantic trench, swung his Moors around to a point where the bank sloped more easily and the water was shallower, then resumed bombardment and bombing which observers estimated to have killed...
...circulated rumors that the Italian flag had already been hoisted over the Balearic Islands, that this Spanish territory had been taken by Italian forces as their payment for having helped the Whites. Wrathful in Rome this week, Dictator Mussolini, permitting himself to be quoted, categorically denied that he and Generalissimo Franco had ever made or even contemplated any deal involving the Balearics...