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Lieut. Colonel Ramón Franco, 42-year-old brother of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, was killed last week in a Rightist seaplane crash off Majorca. Long before the world had heard of brother Francisco, dashing, sometimes revolutionary aviator Ramón had made headlines. In 1926 he made the first flight from Europe to South America. Later he took part in several rash, poorly timed, badly organized plots against Alfonso XIII. Though respected by some Spanish Republicans, the hard-&-fast Leftist invariably suspected him of exhibitionism...
...plodding, militaristic Francisco were too often at opposite political poles to be good friends, but when the civil war started Lieut. Colonel Franco, then Spanish air attaché at Washington, immediately returned to Spain to join his brother. The Generalissimo made him chief of the Rightist Majorcan air base. The job was close to a nominal one, however, for all knew that Majorca was directed, if not owned, by the Italians...
...whom is attached a "political commissar" as in the Russian Army, appeared in court accompanied by their commissars as witnesses for the State. Officers and commissars testified that in 1937 Poum soldiers on the Huesca front had for some time a "pact of nonaggression'' with the Rightist soldiers facing them, that a Leftist staff officer who "denounced such trafficking with the enemy" was found murdered in a ditch...
Meanwhile, Barcelona lived through one of its most terrifying 24 hours, marked by six Rightist air raids. For the first time since the war's start the city saw a priest in full vestments march through the streets, carrying a cross, followed by Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo and General José Riquelme, among others...
...various parties that neutral observers figured the uncertain French parliamentary balance had simply been maintained. Outstanding was the personal triumph of Socialist Marx Dormoy, a protégé of Léon ("New Deal") Blum, who won his Senate seat in a smashing victory this week over Rightist Marcel Regnier, a protégé of Pierre ("Hoare-Laval Deal") Laval...