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...facts came out because new Leftist Premier Juan Negrin has broken with the Largo Caballero Leftists, is only too glad to have "The Spanish Lenin" exposed. According to Minister of Education Jesus Hernández, the Largo Caballero Cabinet on Nov. 6, when Madrid's fall seemed imminent, left a note with the janitor of their headquarters and quietly skipped to Valencia. That evening famed General José Miaja, military defender of Madrid, happened to come around to see Premier Largo Caballero, was told by the janitor: "I have a letter for you, but my orders are that...
With the quashing of the Anarchist riots and the formation of the more efficient Negrin Government at Valencia, a drastic effort was made to get Barcelona to bear its share of the fighting. Up from Valencia to take control of Barcelona's military came greying, hard-bitten General Sebastian Pozas, ordered to instill a little efficiency into the Barcelona Government and to try to get a few Catalan soldiers into the trenches. Last week came startling news: General Pozas had finally taken the field at the head of a new army of 200,000 Catalans, and some...
...weeks ago rumors began to spread: Poum's Nin had escaped from jail, he was planning even bloodier uprisings, the conservative Negrin Cabinet was in danger. Paris last week had a different story. Government gangsters had kidnapped Poum's Nin from his cell, shot him and dumped him in a roadside ditch, just as year ago other gangsters (in police uniforms) murdered Fascist Deputy José Calvo Sotelo and unwittingly pulled the trigger for the entire war (TIME, July...
...always happens after a major action has not turned out well, there was such unrest behind the lines last week that Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin used his news-organ Socialista to point up the situation sharply: "Deterioration of the enemy's rear guard will serve us little if we do not guard our own rear. There are defects in our rear guard and silence regarding them serves no good purpose. There is but one duty...
Catalonian anarchists supporting the Leftist Government of Premier Dr. Juan Negrin asked leave to stage anti-Fascist rallies and parades on the first birthday of Spain's civil war last week, but were sternly repressed. Catalonia's President Luis Companys cared to risk no street riots among his Communist, Anarchist, Socialist and Republican supporters, and anyhow Leftist Spain was grimly straining every resource in its first large offensive...