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Every house in Madrid last week displayed either the flag of Nationalist Spain or a picture of Francisco Franco, or both. Along the broad, tree-lined Gran Via and the busy Calle de Alcala leading to the Puerta del Sol, from new flagpoles fluttered thousands of the red-&-gold flags, flanked by the emblems of Spain's single Fascist party, the Falange Espanola, and of the traditionalist Requetés. Each pole bore the single word...
Died. Hans Kundt, 70, soldier of fortune, German commander of the Bolivian Army during the Gran Chaco War; in Lugano, Switzerland. In 1918, mustered out of the German Army, Kundt migrated with his family to Bolivia, became a Bolivian citizen. When the Chaco war broke, Bolivia made him head of the Army, cashiered him when he failed to whip Paraguay...
When President German Busch carved Bolivia into a totalitarian state three weeks ago, he announced proudly that it was his own doing, that Rome and Berlin had not helped. Last week Bolivia announced a barter agreement with Germany. For German machinery, a 350-mile pipeline across the Gran Chaco, and an oil refinery in Paraguay, Bolivia planned to ship some $15,000,000 of goods, principally petroleum, to oil-hungry Nazis. The man who made the announcement was not mournful Dictator Busch, but his tough, roving-eyed sidekick and Minister of Mines and Petroleum, Dionisio Foianini...
Signer Mussolini's smooth answer was that his legionnaires, who had shed blood in the glorious Spanish campaigns, surely could not be expected to depart before they had marched down Madrid's Gran Via and Calle de Alcalá, along with 500,000 Spaniards, in a final salute to El Caudillo. And Italy could surely not be held responsible for Dictator Franco's delays. Last week the British and French began to suspect that Il Duce and El Caudillo were giving them the runaround, that Italian soldiers might remain in Spain just as long as Dictator Mussolini...
...began to roll into Madrid. New Franco money (the old Loyalist paper money was declared valueless) arrived by carloads to be exchanged for pre-war currency. Direct train service between the capital and Saragossa was restored after nearly three years. Sandbags piled up in front of buildings on the Gran Via were removed, shutters were pulled up, temporary boarding was torn down. The rooms of hotels long considered unsafe because of artillery fire were reopened. Barricades which had been carefully erected in West Madrid more than two years ago were torn down. For the first time in over two years...