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...Premier called what remains of his cabinet together, proclaimed Madrid the capital once more of the Loyalist Government. With weatherbeaten old General Miaja as Generalissimo and commander-in-chief of all of central Spain, the Premier drafted a proclamation calling for "a compact, heroic national front" to make a last-ditch stand in the Madrid area. "Our fate is at stake and it depends entirely upon ourselves to come out successfully from the present situation through our own will power and determination. Either we shall all save ourselves or sink ourselves in extermination and opprobrium," said the proclamation...
Whether Barcelona fell or not, however, the Government had its last-ditch plans: The fight would continue in northern Catalonia. If that were taken, the Government would move back to southern Spain. If that, too, fell, if they lost Valencia and Madrid, the fight would still be continued underground...
Sweeping past Montserrat, the high mountain on which the most famous of Spain's monasteries stands, the Rebels' western force pressed on toward the high range of hills, highest of which is Tibidabo, at Barcelona's back door. Barcelona's last-ditch stand would come before Tibidabo was reached, since the Rebel capture of it would mean certain conquest of the city...
Frosty-bearded General Anton Denikin, commander of the White armies in their last-ditch fight against the Reds in the south of Russia in 1918-20, emerged from his Paris retirement last week to excoriate any "socalled White Russian" who would join Hitler to fight the Soviet Union. In a phrase reminiscent of Frenchman Jacques Deval's play Tovarich-which Adolf Hitler has seen three times-old General Denikin cried to an audience of fellow-exiles: "White or Red, our fatherland remains our fatherland. Whoever may aid Russia's enemies cannot call himself a patriot, no matter what...
...rightly or wrongly convinced that the present U. S. Government is bent on sending it to the death house, has been fighting a rear-guard legal action with about as little success as Convict Tom Mooney. It has lost two major appeals in the Supreme Court. Last fortnight utility lawyers concluded a last-ditch attempt to get the currently New Dealish Supreme Court to reverse the "brutal doctrine of Chattanooga"-the opinion of a three-judge Federal Court this year that since TVA power sales are legal, utilities have no legal relief even from ruinous TVA competition. Last week from...