Word: militiaization
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Spanish workmen of the Red Militia, desperately battling to save Madrid, outnumbered two-to-one last week the advancing spearhead of White professional soldiers 67 miles from the Capital. Ensued a conflict savage in the extreme, with Madrid claiming that the Whites had been pushed back 15 miles, and Seville headquarters of the Whites saying they had defeated the Reds. But the week brought one decisive action in Spain's bloody stalemate...
...defending Irun the proletarian militia supporting the Government, which had been deserted by most of its Army, carefully mined the terrain over which it was thought Generalissimo Franco's forces must advance. This trap was betrayed to the White forces by their sympathizers in the Government camp fortnight ago, and last week they were able to avoid it and get down to straight fighting...
Untrained, the Government militia made such a mess of trying to use their artillery that finally a sympathetic French reserve officer undertook to direct their fire. The French Ambassador, bold Jean Herbette, meanwhile undertook to take out of Spain a mysterious individual whom the Red guards at the Spanish frontier viewed with so much suspicion that they threatened to open fire. Cried M. Herbette from his Ambassadorial car flying the Tricolor, ''Fire if you dare, Messieurs-upon the French Ambassador!" As the Reds hesitated he dashed to safety in France...
...upheaval of the Cabinet. Thus far sympathizers with Madrid had been able to claim that "not a single Socialist or Communist" sat in the Cabinet under President Manuel Azaña. Though the secret was long since out that this Cabinet was powerless, that Madrid was dominated by Red militia and "People's Tribunals'' similar to those which asserted themselves during the French Revolution, the fagade of the Republic was maintained. It crumbled as Irun fell and the Reds grew desperate. Almost a prisoner in his own Presidential Palace, scared Don Manuel Azana appointed as Premier last...
...obtain raw materials, pay wages and effect profitable sales after the Spanish civil war is over. For the time being, every Barcelona factory capable of being converted to make war materials was running full blast, the Madrid Cabinet buying hand-over-fist everything it could get to arm its militia, paying with gold from the vaults of the Bank of Spain and with crisp new pesetas from its printing presses. Barcelona landlords found their tenants enthusiastically agreed that all rents had been reduced 50%. Small factories and little shops remained under direction of their owners as their workers talked Anarchism...