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After leaving Madrid comparatively alone for three weeks, Rightist artillery last week began dropping in shells at methodical, nerve-racking intervals. Some burst in the onetime Royal armory, beloved of tourists, where many a romantic visitor has discovered that in days of old each noble knight wore a sponge in the crotch of his iron trousers. Meantime, disclosed last week were the shocking circumstances, hitherto unsuspected by most Spaniards, in which last autumn the Leftist Cabinet, then headed by Premier Largo Caballero ("The Spanish Lenin") took flight from Madrid...
Just as newsreaders were awaiting the first dispatch saying that British and French warships had convoyed some merchant ships safely past "pirate submarines," there arrived instead the first dispatch reporting that British warships had sighted two submarines flying the Spanish Rightist flag being safely escorted across the Mediterranean by a convoy of two German and two Italian destroyers...
While "Marxist-held Spain is living without God" the Rightist regions enjoy "the tranquillity of internal order under the protection of a real authority. . . . Divine Worship is celebrated profusely and new manifestations of Christian life abound and flourish...
...legislators when, in the manner of Franklin Roosevelt's "both your houses" remark (see p. 11), he attacked recent strikes caused by political squabbles, called inter-union conflicts "unjustified," said they served to "give arms to our enemies." With a warning to American, British, oil and mining interests, Rightist sympathizers, that the revolution would proceed despite "discontent at popular conquests," the President sat down. As he did so a cameraman tumbled off the platform. Superstitious Congressmen muttered among themselves that this was a bad omen...
...hours later a band of laborers, fired with their President's pronouncements, raided a meeting of the antiSemitic, anti-Communist Mexican National Vanguard. Shots were fired, several were wounded, including Vanguard President Ruben Moreno Padres, who was knifed in the back. Rightist sympathizers blamed the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers) for the clash. Faced with the accusation, Confederation Secretary-General Vicente Lombardo Toledano coyly attributed the attack to "some people passing by who heard the Vanguard attacking the Government and rushed to its defense...