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Fifty-two, 53, 54-day after day the Basque soldiers defending Bilbao cut calendar notches in their dugout walls, as Rightist troops inched ever closer and still the city did not fall. Three times in the past century Bilbao has been besieged, in 1874 for 125 days, but Bilbao has never been captured...
...Valencia last week the six-month-old Government of greying, pugnacious Premier Francisco Largo Caballero fell. In the midst of the political crisis a flight of Rightist warplanes swept in from the open Mediterranean raining light bombs. They wrecked a streetcar, smashed windows, killed the cook and wounded the doorman of the British Embassy...
...much fighting last week. Every front but Bilbao remained in a stalemate. . Around Bilbao the German-Italian-Rightist ring crept closer and closer but still the Basques held out with deeds of incredible valor, sacrificing thousands in desperate counter-attacks and cheering each other with the thought that their grandfathers had held Bilbao through a siege of 125 days in the Carlist War of 1874. What made their chances blackest was an almost total lack of airplanes to oppose the German bombers of General Franco. The massacre of Guernica was sharp in every mind. Should General Franco be advised...
...sleepy southern French city of Béziers last week were billed Spain's three ranking matadors: Marcial Lalande, Domingo Ortega, Manolo Bienvenida. But Beziers Aficionados booed, hooted, threw bottles, for Béziers is stalwartly proletarian and the bulls came from a part of Spain held by Rightist General Franco. Not till the manager shouted that bulls' dislike of red is instinctive, not intellectual, did the crowd allow the corrida...
...wealthy, and wicked benefactors of the University were protesting the so-called "liberal" activity of Messers. Walsh and Sweezy becomes apparent when the political beliefs and activities of some other members of the Faculty are recalled. Surely Professor Frankfurter is not a man pleasing to the all-powerful Rightist oligarchy, which Mr. Lamb believes, controls the University policy. Certainly James M. Landis, Dean-designate of the Law School was not a man whom the "Wall Street bankers who now help administer Harvard's finances" would have chosen. The list of professors, and instructors of leanings decidedly to the Left...