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With a soldier's contempt for the feelings of the Anarchist, Communist and assorted Marxist adherents of the Valencia Cabinet of Premier Largo Caballero in Spain last week, White Generalissimo Francisco Franco let his radiorating General Queipo de Llano appoint as Military Governor of Málaga, just captured from the Reds (TIME. Feb. 15), a soldierly Bourbon, the middle-aged Duke of Seville, onetime Colonel in the Spanish Infantry of King Alfonso XIII...
...court-martial to try all more or less authentic Reds on whom the White victors could get their hands, much as the defenders of Málaga set up after the civil war began a "people's court" to crack down on any Spaniard who seemed to be more or less Monarchist or even middleclass. That an orgy of Spanish vengeance did not at once erupt in Málaga last week, as it has erupted after almost every previous White victory in Spain's civil war, seemed to be due to the fact that decisive in taking...
With the victory at Málaga, which deprived the Valencia Cabinet of their last seaport on the south coast of Spain, came a tough problem for the Italian press. As yet Il Duce does not choose to make it official that Italian forces are fighting in Spain, but also last week Benito Mussolini did not choose to keep his people fror glorying in a victory won largely by Italia arms. The solution: Italian papers printed nothing from their own correspondents about Málaga, reprinted under banner headlines stories in which London, Paris, Berlin and other papers had spilled...
...rdoba and Granada. He had been able to move his headquarters from Morocco to Seville, to ferry about 300 soldiers a day by plane to the mainland. But he was unable to march against Madrid, and fiery-eyed Communist militia still kept him out of Málaga. Government forces, on the other hand, were still unable to capture Zaragoza, strongest military garrison...
...began broadcasting from the Ceuta radio station, pretending to be the Seville station, announcing the surrender of Madrid to the rebels, sympathetic Army garrisons throughout European Spain joined the revolt. They were defeated in Barcelona and Seville but seized the southern ports of Cádiz and Málaga for a landing by the Moroccan rebels, skirmished in Burgos, Pamplona, Valladolid and Zaragoza. Government planes soared over strongholds dropping, first bombs, then leaflets urging soldiers to rebel against their rebellious officers...