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...ears of the 25 had become attuned to the differing bursts of Rightist artillery. Unanimously they agreed that more nine-inch high explosive shells were being blown at Madrid than for months past, expensive artillery was concentrating on the Madrid front...
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...
...Communist allies of Boss Prieto have been tentatively drawing nearer to the Catholic element in Leftist Spain by permitting young Catholics to join the Leftist youth organizations -hitherto 100% Marxist. This tendency the Spanish Lenin has especially denounced. Last week, appeared a third paradox, a manifesto issued by Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco as the civil war entered its 17th month: "Our victory will bring a healthy redistribution of wealth! We are carrying out a profound revolution of the social order, inspired by the principles of the Catholic church. The number of rich persons will diminish and there will be less...
Thus the professed aims of The Revolution (Rightist) have begun to approach those of The Revolution (Leftist)-while fighting each other in a war which up to now has cost Spain some 230,000 lives...
Meetings of Les Cagoulards ("The Hooded Men") were rumored. But nothing more definite on this fabulous, supposedly extreme Rightist French Ku Klux Klan officially came to light...