Word: militiaization
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...greatest advance made by either side since Madrid settled down to bloody siege (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.) came last week when the defending Red Militia swarmed over the West Park in Madrid's northwest section, where the Whites had strongly entrenched themselves. This followed after three days of downpour had sent millions of gallons roaring down the Guadarrama and Manzanares Rivers, which overflowed into the White trenches. Gun carriages sank into seas of mud. Dripping wet and nipped by freezing cold, the White troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco withdrew to higher ground, surrendering the waterlogged region...
...rising water or- dered their 1,500 workers and their families to flee for their lives. At Blytheville, Ark. guards were posted on the Mississippi levees with orders to "shoot to kill" if any Tennesseean crossed the river to dynamite the levee to save his own land. The Tennessee militia was posted as usual on its side to keep Arkansans and Missourians from doing the opposite thing. "Stupid!" While Rear Admiral Gary T. Grayson of the Red Cross launched a drive for $4,000,000 for flood sufferers, while Harry Hopkins put 40.000 WPA workers on rescue and relief work...
Spain's War. Madrid dispatches insisted that the German envoy to the Spanish White Government at Burgos, General Wilhelm Faupel, is in fact the military commander of the German expeditionary force in Spain. Last week Madrid credited him with sending his Reichswehr troops crashing into the Spanish Red Militia a few miles from Madrid and breaking through the Red front on the El Escorial road...
Baron Bumped Off. Dead, apparently shot in the back by a Red Militia execution squad, was Baron Jacques de Borchgrave, First Secretary of the Belgian Legation in Madrid. Incensed at Brussels, the Government of His Majesty King Leopold III demanded $35,000 indemnity from Spanish Premier Largo Caballero, plus a Spanish apology and full military honors for the Baron. His corpse was dug up and the Baron de Borchgrave was found to have been killed by a pistol shot just behind the ear in the classic style of "Spanish bumping off parties" (TIME, Jan. 11) and Chinese executions...
...police headquarters showing the bodies of these victims-whose only crime was being suspected of having sympathies for the enemy-and I estimate that be- tween 10,000 and 15,000 have been shot down in the capital alone," continued U. P.'s Ziffren. "A Madrid militia commander, whom I had known for several years, offered to take me to a 'bumping off party' and show me how it was done...