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...office this morning, I find everything just as before." Undamaged too was the Firestone Hispania tire factory near Galdacano, a concern in which 75% of the capital is Spanish, the rest U. S. Worst trouble was that none of the paper money in Bilbao was any good, its Rightist captors insisting that only their paper had value, and supplies of this had not yet arrived. Temporarily the Rightists distributed food free, a form of propaganda swallowed with sulky looks by many Leftists. Local chambers of commerce bustled about fixing up temporary means of doing business...
...always happens after a big defeat, the fall of Bilbao caused the routed Basque and Asturian forces to be given a unified command, under General Gamir Uribarri last week. He thus had some 110,000 men wherewith to defend Santander, a larger force than that of advancing Rightist General Jose Fidel Davila, but markedly inferior in munitions and warcraft. Leftist propaganda declared: "Basque prisoners are marched through the streets of Bilbao taunted and in degradation." Rightist propaganda announced: "In Santander 15,000 rioters have seized Government buildings and proclaimed a Communist Libertarian Republic...
...Meanwhile at Bilbao and in the 15-mile swath of Rightist advance last week the Leftists had lost the richest iron mines, the largest smelters and steel mills and some of the finest munitions plants in all Spain. As any sophisticate of the armament business would expect, correspondents found that the manufacture of projectiles had not even been interrupted. The whirling lathes whined on, turning out gleaming 75-millimetre shells which would now be paid for by the Rightists, whereas a few days before they had been paid for by Leftists. Not only did Rightists attacking planes never bomb these...
Spain's Leftist Government last week staged intensive hunts for Rightist sympathizers and spies in Valencia and Barcelona, discovered in cellars and hideaways a total of some 3,500 bombs. "We shall be inexorable toward [Leftist] cowards and defeatists," announced the Government. Britain and France the Government characterized as "cowardly democracies which watched unmoved the savage destruction of a sovereign country [the Basque region] and which tolerate that cynical neutrality patrol which only serves to insure for foreign Fascism immunity for transporting its armies of ruffians...
...efforts this week to cut the Madrid-Valencia highway, Rightist Italian tanks grappled with Leftist Russian tanks along a 15-mile front in what Madrid radio called "the biggest tank battle since the World War." Madrid complained that the Rightist air force has been "doubled" by recent arrivals of Germans and Italians, declared that 15,000 more Italian soldiers had just been landed officered by members of the Italian General Staff. Meanwhile seven German warships left their anchorages in Portuguese waters (see map, p. 15), steaming past Gibraltar into the Mediterranean, where they were joined by the Admiral Graf Spee...