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...time for Parliament to go home for the summer holidays last week but His Majesty's Loyal Opposition harbored deep suspicions that His Majesty's Government intend to put one over on them by extending recognition to the Spanish Rightist regime of General Francisco Franco while the Lords and Commons stand adjourned. Laborite Clement Attlee, the tiny, terrier-like Opposition Leader barked demands for a specific promise that Parliament would be reconvened ''before the Government embark on any new policy which would render imminent the granting of belligerent rights to General Franco...
Last week Rightist President Francisco Franco, after starting up again the offensive against Santander he had to stop to check the Leftists at Madrid, started another drive against Leftist positions 100 mi. east of Madrid and then turned to statecraft, forming a Cabinet of seven ministers, five of them generals. To Spaniards the name of General Martinez Anido as Minister of Interior, in charge of police, meant that any last vestige of possible compromise with Spain's Communists, Anarchists and Socialists had been deliberately wiped out by the Rightists. Martinez Anido was Vice-Premier under the late Spanish Dictator...
Three days later Laborite M. P.s demanded to know why "in the name of humanity" His Majesty's Government was not using its warships more vigorously to prevent Spanish Rightist cruisers from stopping Leftist ships carrying "food to starving women and children...
Last week Rightist air fighters shot down the Leftist plane of Pilot Dahl who descended by parachute unhurt, was conducted to Rightist headquarters at Salamanca and readily told the above story. Its main lines were soon confirmed to Cannes reporters by Mrs. Dahl who begged U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt to intercede for her husband's release...
...hitherto inclined to see Spain's Civil War professionally as a small testing ground for the latest lethal equipment, took some-what more interest last week as the "Battle of Madrid" (TIME, July 26) grew to an extremely desperate conflict between roughly 100,000 Leftists and 100,000 Rightists-not "big stuff" by World War standards, but biggish. Hitherto Rightist General Francisco Franco has mostly remained at Salamanca, his capital, filling the role of Rightist Spain's President, but last week he hurried to field headquarters. There, rubbing his hands with a satisfaction at least well simulated, General...