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...terrorist Red element. Few days later, his Whites finally overwhelmed Malaga, the last enemy stronghold on Spain's south coast, broadcast that they had been welcomed with "enthusiasm" while Red militia fled headlong from the city, as well they might. Few hours after No. 2 White General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, "The Radio General," entered Malaga he broadcast that he was setting up courts-martial, that "Marxists will be instantly executed!" By nightfall nearly 5,000 persons had been rounded up. Released from Red prison ships in the harbor by General de Llano were 200 men and women, many...
Paradoxically in Seville and its languorous province of Andalusia the Revolution found itself embarrassed by enthusiastic assumption on the part of the local populace that it stood for restoration of the Monarchy. In charge of Seville, Generalissimo Franco had put General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, an officer so strongly Republican that he was forced to flee Spain during the reign of King Alfonso. Last week, although Generalissimo Franco had ordered all his forces to fly the flag of the Republic (which was the same as that flown by the Madrid Government they were fighting), General Queipo de Llano...
...heir Prince Juan, whom he recently sent packing out of Spain (TIME, Aug. 17). The exiled King, who is at pains to keep repeating that he never abdicated, was at Dellach in Austria for the mournful second anniversary last week of the death of his youngest son, Gonzalo, in a motor accident. Said he: "I am in deepest mourning over the events in Spain." Savage Sieges. Main fighting of the week was a series of attacks by General Mola in efforts to dislodge Government forces from Irun and San Sebastian, and the grim advance toward Madrid of Generalissimo Franco...
...into insignificance before those of Dictator Gomez. For every policeman in Caracas Dictator Gomez kept twelve spies, .male & female, on his payroll. No shotgun was ever big enough to make Dictator Gomez marry and before his death last week he had produced at least So bastards. One of them, Gonzalo, got himself shot last week attempting to stage a deathbed marriage for his mother. From graft alone he assembled the second largest private fortune in South America, estimated at over...
...theory small countries like Afghanistan and Ecuador must pay anywhere from $20,000 to $60,000 dues each year for the privilege of being League members. In his speech of acceptance Gonzalo Zaldumbide, Ecuador's Minister to Switzerland, ingenuously admitted that the reason his country had delayed so long accepting the League's invitation was that his country wanted to be sure it was going to be worth the money...