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...clarioned "Fight on!," telephoned to Madrid's famed old General José Miaja appointing him military dictator of Southern Leftist Spain. Its area this week was 60,975 square miles; that of Premier Negrin's own Northern Leftist Spain 9,725 square miles; while the area of Rightist Spain was 125,900 square miles...
Aranda to the Sea! If the Leftist flight in the Pyrenees sector continues, the Rightists will soon have detached Leftist Spain from France, cut off the flood of French and Soviet munitions through France. This is Rightist Objective No. 1, would almost certainly decide the war. Last week Rightist Objective No. 2 was to complete the drive to the sea and definitely cut Leftist Spain in twain, although to all intents & purposes Generalissimo Francisco Franco accomplished this when Italian Fascist Militia fought down the Ebro River Valley, besieged the town of Tortosa (TIME, April...
...broadcasting their achievement directly to Rome, whence it was rebroadcast to all Italy. Then at the gates of Tortosa they ceased broadcasting. Generalissimo Franco, after the Black Arrows had failed for eleven days to take Tortosa, last week politely left them to continue their efforts, sent a smashing 100% Rightist Spanish offensive under General Miguel Aranda driving down to the sea a few miles south of Tortosa. Viñaroz was the first seaside town to be occupied. There General Aranda's Galician troops went down to the shore and jubilantly planted their red & gold banners in the sands...
This most professional drive was executed by having Rightist General Garcia Escamez hotly engage a large Leftist defending force in frontal attack, while Rightist Generals Garcia Valino and Aranda swept around the Leftists' wings, met behind them and then swept on toward the Mediterranean in a 16-mile-wide offensive. Twenty miles of coast, from the outskirts of San Carlos de la Rápita to Peñiscola were in Rightist hands by week...
...Harvard University was booed by liberals for firing two popular young economics instructors, John Raymond Walsh and Alan Richardson Sweezy. Messrs. Walsh & Sweezy were leaders of the Harvard branch of the American Federation of Teachers, an A. F. of L. union. Last week, with traditional indifference, Harvard braved a rightist storm by appointing to its staff a self-declared Communist...