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With the Rebel capture of Catalonia complete, Premier Negrin, determined to hold out in central Loyalist Spain until he can wangle the best possible terms out of Generalissimo Franco or until international developments-i.e., war or the threat of war between Italy and France-turn the tide in favor of Loyalist Spain, announced his intention to go to Madrid and continue the struggle. Again France indulged in a friendly gesture to General Franco and informed Premier Negrin that no special plane would be allowed to remove him from French soil. Again the Premier found a way out. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sixth Capital | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Back in Madrid, the Loyalists' first capital,* the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sixth Capital | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...will take some weeks before General Franco can rest and reorganize his forces and replenish his supplies for a big drive on central Loyalist Spain but last week the Rebel commanders began giving Madrid a bloody foretaste of the fight to come. The big guns outside Madrid, fired only sporadically for a year, opened up in earnest and plumped their shells into the city. Twenty-four were killed and 64 wounded in one day's barrage. Rebel bombers this week also resumed heavy attacks on Valencia and Alicante, two of the three main ports remaining in Loyalist hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sixth Capital | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Shortly after the war started se४r Barriobero became the presiding judge of the anarchists' revolutionary "People's Tribunal" in Barcelona, where he prided himself on following his own personal principles of justice. He soon ran afoul of the Loyalist Government, was accused of pocketing some of the fines he collected, was finally imprisoned in a hospital. Three weeks ago, when Generalissimo Francisco Franco's troops took Barcelona, se४r Barriobero remained behind, of his own volition. Last week, a broken, stoop-shouldered, tired old man, he was tried before a military tribunal in the same court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Judge's Trial | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...puts an embargo on iron, oil and planes to Japan; 5) England and France do not make a deal to dismember China, as a means of blocking both Japanese imperialism and a possible victory for the Chinese Communists; 6) China does not become another Czecho-Slovakia or Loyalist Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ifs Over China | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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