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...make world headlines. In 1926, widely hailed as the "Spanish Lindbergh," he flew non-stop from Cadiz to Buenos Aires, later became air attache to the Spanish embassy at Washington. When the revolution broke last year, hot-headed Brother Ramon made no secret of his Leftist sentiments. Somewhere in Rightist Spain today, Brother Ramon is sitting in jail...
...civil war, nor the first choice of its instigators as its military leader. In 1936, as soon as the Madrid Government announced that national elections had returned a thumping Leftist majority, plans for the rebellion were laid. Guiding spirit was the devious Catholic politician Jose Maria Gil Robles, now Rightist representative to Portugal. Leader of the rebellion was to be General Jose Sanjurjo. Francisco Franco, whom the republican Government had rusticated on the Canary Islands, was expected to play a part, but a minor one. On the word of the cocksure conspirators that the whole rebellion would be over...
...Princess Elizabeth. Nine months ago the Bureau for Press & Propaganda issued an appeal signed by Dona Carmencita to all other nine-year-olds to pray for peace and papa's victory. Beyond that she has avoided the limelight. Dona Carmen Polo de Franco is patron of the Rightist Red Cross, frequently officiates at charity bullfights...
...Novelti. On the arcaded Plaza Mayor in the centre of the city there is no silence, but plenty of listeners. Here are four large sidewalk cafes with back-room restaurants, all equally greasy and flyspecked. Fashion has chosen just one, the Cafe Novelti, to be the official saloon of Rightist Spain. Here daily gather whatever foreign correspondents are in town, staff officers, German and Italian aviators (always at separate tables), secret agents and such wounded soldiers as are in funds (see p. 21). Probably no one spot in all Rightist Spain contains as much actual news and incredible gossip...
...Rightist Spain's stamps, which are simply labeled CORREOS (MAIL), some of which bear the portrait of Queen Isabella, were declared invalid by little Costa Rica this week, but are accepted in the rest of the postal union. *Besides the standard, pre-Revolution red-barred yellow flag of Spain and the flags of sympathetic Germany, Italy and Portugal, hotel? and public squares in Rightist Spain punctiliously display, to the astonishment of most patrons, the blue and white banner with the parrotlike bird of Guatemala...