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...Spanish war front burst into sudden activity last week when a powerfully reinforced Rightist Army moved forward against the Leftist-held Ebro River salient. It was the eighth in a series of costly Rightist attempts to regain the narrow, mountainous strip of land west of the Ebro taken by the Leftists in late July. Long ago the salient ceased to have much strategic value. Committed to retaking it, however, Generalissimo Francisco Franco sent general after general to drive the Leftists back across the river, is estimated to have spent the lives of 70,000 men there since early August...
United Pressman James I. Miller managed to buttonhole Rightist Spain's Francisco Franco last week at his field headquarters on the Ebro Front (see col. 2), asked him if he thought the war can now be ended by mediation. The General snapped: "There will be no mediation, because criminals and their victims cannot live together. ... I do not like to prognosticate when the fighting will cease. . . .We have already...
...months little military activity has taken place on Spain's Madrid front. Last week, at several points southeast of Madrid on the Jarama River, Leftists repulsed small isolated Rightist punches. To some observers these attacks were regarded as feelers preliminary to a new Rightist offensive aimed at encircling Spain's former capital...
...jail where Nin was held for a time last year. The fellow prisoner told Kerensky that the jail was then in charge of Soviet Russians, and that he believed Nin was taken from Madrid to Moscow. The prosecution insisted at the trial that Nin escaped from Madrid to the Rightist lines, but he has never been reported in Rightist Spain...
...last moment Chile's ineffective Nacistas (Nazis), angered because their candidate was jailed as an "extremist'' after an abortive Nazi uprising month ago, spurned a logical tie-up with the rightist parties and threw in their lot with the Popular Front...