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...perhaps un piccolo Caporetto ("a little Caporetto"). Air fighters on both sides are now so good that daylight bombing of important centres is considered too risky. Madrid has not been daylight-bombed for two months. In Salamanca even veteran Hearst Correspondent Karl von Wiegand had to write, and the Rightist censors felt they had to pass, this glorious Leftist news...
...Sullivan. ... I knocked him out in just under six rounds. I had a broken hand when I did it. . ... It was kept a most extraordinary secret." Leftist voters of Lille elected to fill the French Chamber seat of Roger Salengro, Minister of Interior who killed himself after the Rightist press hounded him as a War deserter, his hitherto obscure brother Henri, a small-town politician. Claiming she had refrained from remarrying in 1907 on the promise of the late Vicar General John Joseph Dunn of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York that he would leave her one-third...
...Government will win because we have money, money and still more money!" With all Madrid newsorgans now in Government hands, substantial citizens of the capital read some strange bits under the familiar banner heads of what once were their favorite papers. "The only good bondholder," declared Informaciones, a Rightist organ not so long ago, "is a dead bondholder!" In red capitals screaming clear across the page Mundo Obrero clarioned THE WATCHWORD IS EXTERMINATION ! and approvingly reported that embattled miners of the Government militia were
Premier Santiago Casares Quiroga promptly suspended Parliament for eight days, and all the Monarchist Deputies swore never to return. Unwisely the Government refused to allow Calvo's body to lie in state anywhere, barred a mob of 30,000 Rightists from the cemetery where he was being buried. When the crowd gave the Fascist shout, "Up Spain!" Assault Guardsmen fired, killed five, wounded three. Forehanded, President Manuel Azaña ordered the Army and Civil Guards mobilized in quarters, ordered a roundup of Rightist leaders, jammed them into jails. Talkative Rightists had begun telling about a great Army revolt...
...Right were that the Left-controlled National Executive Committee had taken away the charter of the Right-controlled New York State organization and given it to a Leftist group; that the National Executive Committee had approved the credentials of the 44 Leftist delegates from New York, leaving 44 Rightists without seats. But there was a bigger division on the question of compromising with Communist methods of violence. Said Mr. Waldman scathingly of the Left: ". . . their so-called mass war resistance program is not Socialist, for it fights against one specific agency of the Federal Government, instead of attempting...