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Twice in the last century - 1834-39 and 1871-86 - Spain was rocked by the Carlist civil wars. During the 1920s she suffered several general strikes, a seemingly interminable Moroccan War, an ironclad, royally inspired dictatorship under Primo de Rivera. In 1931, she ousted her King, adopted a modern, republican constitution. In 1932, General Sanjurjo led a shortlived Monarchist revolt in Seville. In 1934, Left extremists staged an equally abortive but longer armed rebellion in Asturias. Interested though it was, Europe left Spain's domestic convulsions strictly to Spain...
...Rightist lines last week came the report that many U. S. volunteers captured earlier in the war had been summarily shot without trial, most of them by grizzled, hard-boiled Legionnaires of the Tercio de Extranjeros (Spanish Foreign Legion). The Legionnaires, all Spaniards but part of the Rightists' Moroccan army corps, are Franco's shock troops and thus frequently bang up against the U. S. and foreign fighters, shock troops for the Barcelona Government. The Italians, more lenient with their captives, were reported to have insisted on a Rightist guarantee that U. S. and other International Brigade prisoners...
...Cabinet figured it had acted none too soon when news came that Moroccan natives 1,000 strong had risen at Khemisset with knives and guns, were besieging the French garrison which had barricaded itself. Ten planes followed by troops from Rabat forced the Insurrectionists to submit and a French court-martial working at top speed sentenced 70 arrested persons to prison terms of from one to ten years, restored quiet...
...Seine upon which France has strung like so many pearls her overseas colonies. Muddy, reeking with pungent coffee and spices and exceedingly popular are the North African bazaars whose keepers seem to scream and haggle the loudest when not flattering and blandishing the most seductively. Especially beautiful are the Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian quarters with their tinkling fountains, warmly atmospheric patios, fakirs and camels. On hot days, Equatorial and Occidental African craftsmen were stinking convincingly last week as they fashioned their wares amid incipient squalor which seemed to make them more at home at the Exposition each day. Biggest...
Morocco in Revolt? Turbulent was many a Moroccan town last Week as news of Leftist successes seeped in from Spain, set natives wondering if now was the time to rise against the Rightists who to them are "just Spaniards"-that is, vile Christians hateful in the sight of Allah. Generalissimo Francisco Franco's life-long specialty has been understanding the Moroccans. He long commanded the Spanish Foreign Legion in this sphere of influence. Last year he made friendly gestures to Allah's people as soon as he set up his Government. One of these gestures was to invite...