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While the churches of Barcelona were being pillaged by Reds who dragged out even the mummified corpses of long dead nuns, in Seville the local White commander General Queipo de Llano broadcast this fantastic exhortation...
Paradoxically in Seville and its languorous province of Andalusia the Revolution found itself embarrassed by enthusiastic assumption on the part of the local populace that it stood for restoration of the Monarchy. In charge of Seville, Generalissimo Franco had put General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, an officer so strongly Republican that he was forced to flee Spain during the reign of King Alfonso. Last week, although Generalissimo Franco had ordered all his forces to fly the flag of the Republic (which was the same as that flown by the Madrid Government they were fighting), General Queipo de Llano...
...expectant mother, convulsively gave birth to two dead babes as she expired. Later the Vicomte de Sibour, with a plane borrowed from London's Drygoods Sportsman H. Gordon Selfridge Jr. (TIME, Aug. 17), began taking off tourists, four at a time. To rescue the 19 remaining, General Queipo de Llano sent from Seville a giant German Junkers transport, escorted by a scouting plane. This outfit safely evacuated Granada's U. S. tourists, flying them to Seville, whence they jounced by bus to Cadiz, boarded the U. S. cruiser Oklahoma and were taken to British Gibraltar, mostly dead broke...
Entering a Madrid cafe one evening last fortnight, Lieutenant Miguel Primo de Rivera bustled up to General Queipo de Llano, recently author of an "insulting" letter to the onetime Dictator. Serene, the General sat at a corner table, elegantly sipping deviled coffee (with brandy), secure in the belief that a mere lieutenant would not dare violently to resent the insult of a general...
Stepping straight up to his tormentor Son Miguel boxed General Queipo de Llano first on his left ear, next on his right, then punched his brandied nose. "C-c-consider yourself under military arrest!" spluttered the General. Next day Spain's new Dictator, General Damaso Berenguer, took a short cut out of an embarrassing situation, ordered Lieu tenant Miguel Primo de Rivera out of the country. Last week a police escort saw him as far as Hendaye, across the Spain-France border. A third son of the fallen Dictator was serving last week with the Spanish air force...