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...Republic. Last month all Spanish newspapermen got orders to present to the Government copies of what they had written against Franco during the civil war. By last week 35 of these journalists had been shot. Among the 35: Antonio Hermosilla, editor of Madrid's Leftist La Libertad; Modesto Sánchez Monreal, editor of Madrid's Leftish El Sol; Emilio Gabás, onetime editor of Madrid's El Socialista; Federico Moreno, editor of Zaragoza's Heraldo de Aragón; and Javier Bueno, who was editor of Oviedo's Avance and one of Spain...
Former Republican Premier Dr. Juan Negrin, Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo, onetime Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto, General Jose Miaja and a whole host of lesser fry were in Mexico arranging for transfers of refugees. Communist Deputy Dolores Ibarruri ("La Pasionaria") and Colonel Juan Modesto were in the Soviet Union. Famed Colonel Enrique Lister, onetime stonemason, leader of Madrid's famed Communist Fifth Regiment, was thought to be in hiding in France; openly there were President Manuel Azana, onetime Premier Jose Giral, General Vicente Rojo, onetime Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, Catalonian President Luis Companys, Basque President Jose Antonio...
...only did the Loyalists face vastly superior armaments, but for the first time in the war they were outnumbered in soldiers in the field. Commanded by their best military brains-Generals Juan Sarrabia and Enrique Lister, Colonel Juan Modesto-the Loyalists employed the only possible methods of fighting under such conditions -i.e., slow retreat, then localized counterattacks. They hoped for a spell of bad weather to cripple the Rebel offensive...
...those few foreigners whose presence added reason for the accusation of Moscow's interference in the Spanish war. Their presence was always understood as temporary -until good enough Spanish leaders could be developed to take their places. There are now some truly remarkable Spanish commanders, such as Modesto, Duran, Lister and Campesine, with whom it is considered possible to carry...
Died. Charles Kenny McClatchy, 77, militant publisher of California's three famed Daily Bee's (Sacramento, Modesto, Fresno); of pneumonia; in Carmichael. Last year his Sacramento Bee won the Pulitzer Prize for "meritorious public service" (TIME...