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With the war in its seventh week, the strongest figure in Madrid, correspondents agreed, was no member of the Cabinet of Premier José Giral Pereira but enormous Socialist Indalecio Prieto to whom Spaniards in the capital looked for inspiration. Fighting at the front in overalls was No. 2 Socialist Francisco Largo Caballero, which left the No. 1 a clear field in Madrid last week to state for the first time what is the Government's program in case its Red militia defeat 80% of the Spanish army led by Generalissimo Francisco Franco and General Emilio Mola...
...Victory for our Government," said Indalecio Prieto, mopping his brow and fanning himself, "will mean that the large estates will have to be collectivized, almost on a Communist basis, and credit will have to be found for the small farmer. Although fundamental changes will be necessary, Spain is not ready or well enough developed economically for pure Communism. We shall nationalize the banks, industries, mines, railroads and other transports, but we need the wealth provided by the small trader." This from Socialist No. 1 might be considered the Government's minimum pro gram, since Socialist...
...Whites declared that of Spain's 50 provinces they held last week 27 against 22 held by the Government. Because the world's fourth largest gold hoard, $400,000,000, is salted down in the vaults of Madrid's Bank of Spain, eminent Socialist Leader Indalecio Prieto boasted: "The Government will win because we have money, money and still more money!" With all Madrid newsorgans now in Government hands, substantial citizens of the capital read some strange bits under the familiar banner heads of what once were their favorite papers. "The only good bondholder," declared Informaciones...
...fighting under such banners as LONG LIVE DYNAMITE! A speech by Socialist Prieto in which he urged the Government militia to moderate their excesses brought a violent counter blast from Communist Deputy Dolores ("The Passion Flower") Ibarruri:- "Im- prison the wives and children of all who are fighting the Government! . . . The life of each militiaman fighting at the front must be guaranteed by holding the mother or child of a traitor as hostage!" In Madrid hospitals, where most of the trained nurses have always been Sisters of Mercy, these nuns were ejected last week by untrained radical nurses despite...
President Azaña is a real Republican, but the Socialists who swept him into power in the February elections want a "proletarian dictatorship." Last week he offered the Premiership to the only Socialist leader who does not believe in revolution : Indalecio Prieto. Prieto declined it. President Azaña offered it to the Radical Democratic leader. Speaker of the Cortes Diego Martinez Barrio, who also declined. Finally he offered it to another Republican, Minister of the Interior Santiago Casares Quiroga, who for two months has had the delicate job of suppressing Socialist riots and church-burnings without making...