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...gates of Bilbao, word came that General O'Duffy's Irish Brigade would soon be on the way back to Britain. The official reason was that since the international non-intervention scheme went into effect fortnight ago, no replacements could go out from Ireland. Correspondents with the Rightist armies had other explanations. Since his arrival in Spain, the advice of General Owen O'Duffy has never been asked by the high-powered German and Italian staff officers of Generalissimo Franco...
...armies of Generalissimo Francisco Franco contain approximately 100,000 volunteer Moors, Italians, Germans. Until last week there was also on his rolls another group of 1,400 men, hailed by neutral observers as the only group of honest volunteers among all the foreigners on the Rightist side: the Irish Brigade of General Owen O'Duffy...
Spaniards in the Rightist ranks hate all their foreign colleagues, but have found the thin ranks of the Irish Brigade easiest to impose on. In the frontal attack on Madrid recently the Irish Brigade suddenly found itself under heavy rifle and machine-gun fire from its own rear, suffered heavy casualties, had to fight its way back through the Rightist ranks...
Unshaven, mud-caked, a treasured cigaret drooping from his mouth, a Rightist Spanish staff officer grinned toothily at a knot of foreign correspondents in Irun...
...side, General Franco formed his own 20-man Junta, modeled on Italy's Fascist Grand Council, to help him rule Spain's Rightist territories and eventually "to supplant the Madrid-Valencia Government." All political parties were outlawed by General Franco except the one under his command, which received this impressive title: The Spanish Phalanx of Traditionalists and Offensive National Syndicalist Juntas...