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Such an outburst by the Spanish Lenin loomed this week as of capital importance to Anarchists, Socialists, Trotskyists and Stalinists as well as to neutral observers of Leftist and Rightist Spain. Defense Minister and Boss Indalecio Prieto of the Leftist Government is in origin a Spanish middle-class politician of the old school. That he should be bossing a regime which in Socialist eyes is featured today by a ''reign of terror," secret police activity as in Russia and a betrayal of the "revolu-tion"* as originally conceived by such Spanish Leftists as Largo Caballero, provided Europe last...
...against Catalonia, first threatened four weeks ago, again failed to materialize last week, was postponed from mañana (tomorrow) to mañana (tomorrow). What attacks there were on the Aragon front were all on the Leftist side. A brave but foolhardy attack by Catalan militiamen against a Rightist stronghold known as Hill, 1100 was beaten back after a loss of some 400 men caught in a blast of machine-gun fire on the barbed wire. Not even one Spanish square mile changed hands last week...
...sunny Morocco, impatient wives and sweethearts of Moors fighting under Rightist Franco demonstrated at Tetuan, screaming: "We want our men back!" precipitated a bloody 24-hour riot put down by 130 executions. Meanwhile, the mere presence in the Balearics of Son Bruno Mussolini (TIME. Nov. 8) provoked so many bomb raids as Leftists tried to exterminate him, that last week Spanish Rightists were vastly relieved when Bomber Bruno flew back to Italy with part of his Fascist squadron...
...important military action by either side had taken place on Nov. 7. Preliminary to the great Franco offensive, Rightist bombers came meanwhile down from over the mountains to blast the living daylights out of Catalan Lerida, later Barbastro, killing some 300 civilians, in the process. It was useless to pretend that the towns lacked military importance. Lerida, a key town in the Leftist defense of Barcelona, was the temporary headquarters of Leftist Commander General Sebastian Pozas, and Barbastro not only contained many Leftist ammunition dumps but was last week an important Leftist base. One of Lerida's bombs landed...
...that in Catalonia at least it might. Catalans who indulge in street fighting at a hat's drop are in general poor soldiers. For a full year they frankly shirked their full share of Leftist fighting, partly because not one foot of Catalan territory is yet invaded by Rightist troops. Now, suddenly, they find that not only has their autonomous Catalan Government been practically swallowed by the Valencia regime, which fortnight ago moved its Spanish Leftist Government in on them at Barcelona, but that after 18 months of playing at war, they are about to be subjected...