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...Socialist Norman Thomas, visiting Valencia, heard only one shot fired during several hours at the Teruel front trenches. But off the sea just before one dawn came a droning V of Rightist planes. Ninety bombs whistled down in Valencia's worst air raid to date. At least 200 people were killed, about 50 buildings destroyed. Uninjured but considerably ruffled, Socialist Thomas cried: "It was diabolical. I shall take a first-hand report of this to President Roosevelt." Lucky was the little British freighter Pinzon, at anchor in Valencia harbor. A bomb dropped full on her bridge but failed...
Next it was Barcelona's turn. Scorning Catalan anti-aircraft batteries, seven Rightist planes circled over the city for 30 minutes, killed approximately 70 people then roared back toward Mallorca. Following Geneva's lead (see p. 18) Leftists promptly asserted that both raids had been made entirely by Italian planes...
...night passed as the world waited to see what Germany might do. Monday noon the answer came, not from Berlin or Iviza, but from Almeria, a small grape and orange-shipping port of military importance on Spain's southeastern corner, now jammed with noncombatant refugees from Rightist-held Malaga. Almeria had nothing to do with the raids on Mallorca, but Almeria is on the section of Spanish coast that the German navy legally patrols. At dawn following the Deutschland bombing, five Nazi warships flying Swas tika battle flags from their main trucks drew up off the harbor entrance. Flagship...
...things the Bilbainos feared: a bloody air raid against the civil population like the massacre at Guernica (TIME, May 10) and poison gas. Rightist planes strafed the outlying districts and military airports, but had not attacked the centre of the city in force by week's end. Generalissimo Franco not only wanted Bilbao, the second industrial city of Spain, but he wanted it whole. Fearful of enraging world opinion, neither side in Spain has used poison gas as yet. Basques worried greatly last week at the capture of dozens of Rightist soldiers carrying gas masks, and word from secret...
...American Committee for Spanish Relief opened a drive for $500,000 with a pageant, "Democracy Imperiled," presented in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. To dramatize the plight of Rightist Spanish civilian sufferers, hundreds of Catholic school children marched in tatters and red-smeared bandages. To represent "Spain" Socialite Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken, whose Son Arthur was wounded last October while filming Spanish battle scenes, appeared in one of the spangled costumes in which she annually dazzles the Beaux-Arts Ball...