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Konitsa's Loyalist Colonel Valadas seemed to think that United Nations support was more of a hindrance than a help. "We are fighting this war with our hands tied," he complained. "Our soldiers are not allowed to get closer than two kilometers to the Albanian border, but we have to take losses from shellfire from guns across the frontier. We have to wait for the U.N. people to come and look through their field glasses and scribble down a note. That's a hell of a way to fight...
Meanwhile in Rome last week the national government got a new vice premier. He was Randolfo Pacciardi, handsome 48-year-old leader of the leftish Italian Republican Party. As organizer and commander of the anti-Fascist Garibaldi Brigade on the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War, Pacciardi had fought side by side with Communists. He had thought for a long time that it was possible to cooperate with Reds, but he had changed his mind. "Until now," he said, "we have made attempts at pacification . . . but we cannot continue merely reciting prayers in a world of wolves...
...months, Salabarria had fretted over a rival who he felt threatened his power in the department-Emilio Tro, young (29), able police major who fought in the Spanish Civil War (on the Loyalist side) and with the U.S. Army in Europe and the Pacific.† Tro, among other things, had accused Salabarria and his supporters of black market operations. That rankled. For the unsolved murder of one of his men a fortnight ago, Salabarria blamed Tro. It also gave him the excuse he needed. Last week, with a warrant for the arrest of Tro and two friends, Salabarria got together...
Died. Hans Kahle, 48, commander of the Loyalist International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, original of the General in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls; after a stomach operation; in Ludwigslust, Soviet Zone of Germany. The Russians had rewarded Kahle's faithful Party work by making him chief of police of Mecklenburg state...
Flight of the loyalist Paraguayan government, president and cabinet, before a robel advance which took possession of two airports, was reported by Argentinian sources last night. President Higinie Morinigio was supposed to have set up his capital 130 miles further down the Paraguay River...