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Similar slogans were used in the Russia of 1917 to sow disaffection among soldiers opposing the Red Army, and daily last week Spain supplied a dossier of facts to show that it was Soviet assistance, ably coordinated by Moscow's General Emilio Kleber and the fleets of Russian bombing planes and tanks at the disposal of Madrid which were enabling the Leftists to succeed last week, just as previous sweeping Rightist drives relied enormously on Italian and German bombers and tanks. Nearly every night last week Madrid put on wild celebrations. Its Defense Junta voted to decorate its chairman...
This was a lighter side of Reds at play, but Mr. Cox grows earnest writing his British admiration of the men now assembled in Spain under General Emilio Kleber, today Commander of the International Column, the tough soldiers of fortune from many lands who first put the backbone of trained soldiering into the defense of Madrid (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.}. Writes News Chronicle's Cox: "General Kleber is by birth an Austrian. His family took him to Toronto when he was still a child, and he became a naturalized British citizen, which he remains to this...
...managed to make my way from Siberia to Moscow and join the Red Army," General Kleber told...
...China, leading one group of the Red Armies against Chiang Kai-shek." Over exactly how the present International Column was organized and hurled into Spain just as Madrid's defenses were about to crumble, Communist Sympathizer Cox draws a veil, simply recording: "General Kleber was at the head of the first brigade of the International Column which arrived in Madrid on that fateful Sunday, November 8th. . . . The Spanish civil war is the third in which he has fought, and the third in which he has had experience of building up an army out of undisciplined masses...
...many of the big new Russian tanks which Soviet newsreels show rushing in terrifying fashion across the Red Square are now giving mighty account of themselves in Spain, and so is the International Column directed by Stalin's ablest practical maker of war outside Russia, famed General Emilio Kleber...