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Among those who saw the last of Republican Madrid was Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., 23-year-old son of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. He had gone to Loyalist Spain on a British battleship, then to Madrid on a sightseeing tour. He had put up at the spacious U. S. Embassy as the guest of Francisco Ugarte, the Embassy's caretaker. Marveled young Mr. Kennedy at Madrid's fall: "Did you ever see anything like it?" After attending Palm Sunday Mass, he went to Burgos, planned to leave Spain soon...
That not much mercy will be shown to Communists (who compared to the Anarchists were a moderate faction of Loyalist Spain) was indicated by New York Times Correspondent George Axelsson in a dispatch filed just after leaving Valencia shortly before that city fell. Wirelessed Newsman Axelsson...
Secret Police. Members of the military tribunals which will try all Loyalists accused of various and sundry "crimes" arrived in Madrid soon after Franco's troops. An 8 p. m. curfew was clamped down; in many a Spanish home the knock of the secret police was momentarily expected and feared. Far from forgetting the Loyalist excesses of the last two-and-a-half years, Nationalist Spain was in a mood for wholesale reprisal and punishment. The new Government's authorities claimed that 250,000 of their sympathizers had been murdered by the Loyalists; they wanted "justice" in each...
...bulging, well-documented Franco index (said to contain some 2,000,000 names) was being annotated from the personal memories of the Fifth Column. Moreover, a large portion of the Loyalist population was being forced, under the threat of punishment, to become informers. The Serenas, picturesque night watchmen who let people into their homes late at night for a small tip, were ordered for questioning. The two oldest inhabitants of any building in which ''murder, robberies, looting, arrests or any other offenses were committed" were ordered to appear before military courts. All those possessing documents, pamphlets, court records...
...forward out of subjection." In it danced, acted, sang and marched 500 pageanteers from London's Labor choirs, 100 folk dancers from the village of Abbott's Bromley, dancers from London's Communist Unity Theatre, Negro Baritone Paul Robeson, and 100 English veterans of the Spanish Loyalist army. Its music was composed by a bombing squad of British composers, headed by London's famed and respected 200-lb. Symphonist Ralph Vaughan Williams...