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When dynamic, new Premier Negrin of the Spanish Leftists made his flying visit to Paris fortnight ago, passionately imploring aid (TIME, July 12). the canny French General Staff reputedly urged that he test and prove the present fitness of Spain's Leftist militia by ordering a full-scale offensive. Last week Premier Negrin, at Valencia, was at the controls of a Leftist offensive which sent 30,000 militia rushing out of Madrid in heroic, bloody efforts to dislodge decisively the besieging Rightists...
...last week 400,000 retreating Leftists and hostages jammed it almost beyond bearing, with food running crucially short. Daily Spanish civilians escaped on British merchant ships convoyed by British warships. In Leftist Spain the situation was recognized to be so desperate that Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin and his Foreign Minister Jose Girál Pereira piled into an airplane, flew to Paris and appealed in strongest terms to new French Premier Camille Chautemps for any and every sort of aid, then flew back to Valencia...
...worth Generalissimo Franco pushed on to Santander knowing that every day's delay would help Santander rally its defenses. Cracked soon it had to be if Spain is to be conquered and Madrid captured this summer. Leftist Madrid has talked of taking a general offensive ever since the Negrin Government came into power in Valencia. Lack of material and properly trained men has always been the Leftists' greatest handicap. But time is on the side of the Loyalists, Generalissimo Franco knows, and if he wins his war he must win it soon...
...Negrin knew that his immediate job was to prevent the Anarcho-Syndicalists from sabotaging the united Republicans, Socialists. Communists and Basque Nationalists represented in his Cabinet. In his favor, the Madrid General Federation of Labor, most potent Socialist-Communist labor group, threw in its lot with the new Government and the menace of Anarcho-Syndicalists, largely industrial workers, shrank proportionately. His other and bigger job-winning the war- he tackled by giving the strongest politician on the Leftist side, onetime Bilbao newsboy Indalecio Prieto, sole charge of the War, Navy, Air and Munitions Ministries. For the first time...
...difficult key post of Minister of the Interior (controlling the national police force and secret service) Dr. Negrin chose young, forceful Basque Socialist Julian Zugazagoita who announced that he would maintain internal order with a rod of iron. A weaker spot in the new Cabinet was in the Foreign Ministry. Julio Alvarez del Vayo, who during the Civil War has acquired the distinction of being one of Europe's most brilliant foreign ministers, had to be replaced because he is inextricably linked with former Premier Largo Caballero. The newly appointed Foreign Minister, Left Republican José Giral Pereira, though...