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Sensationally omitted from President Franco's first Cabinet was hoarse-voiced "Radio General" Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, the Rightist commander at Seville. Immediately after publication of the Cabinet list General Queipo went to the micro phone. "The Government is taking charge of everything, including the purpose of my talks," said he, "therefore it is nat ural that these chats cease...
...general staff headquarters are all within 100 yards of Salamanca's great ornate cathedral, one of the finest in Spain. Proof that the Leftist raid on Salamanca was not an isolated incident but represented a complete change in policy came quickly. In another Leftist raid, against blustering Queipo de Llano's private bailiwick, the city of Seville, five tons of bombs were dropped. 24 people including eleven children and three women were killed...
...attempt to assassinate" seven British Laborite M.P.'s who had been visiting Valencia's law courts, were on their way to a luncheon at the officers' training camp. The nearest bomb fell at least a quarter of a mile away, but the Rightist's radiorating Queipo de Llano soon made priceless Leftist propaganda by bellowing that the British Laborites are "Marxist scoundrels and a pack of savages whom we will punish as they ought to be punished...
Leftist planes scouting over the Guadarramas reported new concentrations of Rightist troops near Guadalajara. Other sources reported nearly 100,000 Rightist troops going southward to join the Andalusian army of boastful "Radio General" Queipo de Llano. At week's end came a cracker. El Caudillo Franco issued an ultimatum to the Barcelona Government. The Negrin Cabinet must agree to an "unconditional surrender" before December 5 or else the long prepared Rightist offensive would start...
Famed chiefly for talking, the Rightist "Radio General" Queipo de Llano and his men achieved the only significant military action in Spain last week, finally wrested from the Leftists 150 square miles in the Penarroya sector which has been warmly contested for the past three months, chiefly because they contain deposits of lead, copper, iron and coal. Biggest is a French-owned coal mine and this week, with the Leftists repulsed to a distance of twelve miles, miners resumed work and General Queipo de Llano radiorated louder than ever. Meanwhile, the widely advertised Aragon-Teruel offensive along the northeastern battle...