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...gravest problem. Leftists can point with pride that their troops have held their own for the last three months. Now Leftists are handicapped by this summer's poor harvest, the cutting in two of Leftist territory, the feeding of 3,000,000 refugees who fled before Rightist advances, difficulties of transportation, ceaseless bombing, sinking of food ships bound for Leftist harbors...
...industrial Catalonia, her population swollen with refugees, her few railroads and highways glutted with military supplies, the possibility of famine was so urgent last week that Barcelona's press bureau sent cables to U. S. Leftist sympathizers appealing for food. Should France and England grant belligerent rights to Rightist Spain-an increasing probability-and thus enable Generalissimo Francisco Franco legally to blockade Leftist ports, little food from the outside could get to Leftist Spain...
Despite a press campaign against anything but unconditional victory, even in Rightist Spain there was growing talk of mediation. Few U. S. or British newsmen covering Rightist Spain have stood in the good graces of Generalissimo Franco's avid blue-penciling censors for long. Notable exception is New York Times Correspondent William P. Carney, who has minimized Italian help to the Rightists, mentioned Moorish troops infrequently, reported denials of large-scale executions, called the Rightists "Nationalists" and described the Rightist reoccupation of Teruel seven weeks before that city was retaken. Even ardent Rightist Carney last week apparently felt...
While the P.O.U.M. affairs (see above) have been Scandal No. 1 in Leftist Spain, there has also been the affair of Malaga. The Leftist commander of the defenses of this rich Mediterranean port-taken in February 1937 by the Spanish Rightists with great swiftness and ease-was Colonel José Villalba, who has been sitting in prison ever since. He was suddenly put on trial last week before the Leftist supreme military tribunal-not the Barcelona civil court before which P.O.U.M. was simultaneously being tried. Among witnesses called to brand Colonel Villalba as a sellout to Rightist Spain...
While two batches of dirty Leftist linen underwent vigorous washing last week (see above), Premier Dr. Juan Negrin announced he would go on the air at Barcelona, short-waving to the world. Punctually at the appointed hour Rightist bombers,. Rightist radio interference and Dr. Negrin all spoke up. As a broadcast the speech was ruined, but cables carried Dr. Negrin's words by dot & dash. The Leftist Premier, seeking to ward off a peace perhaps soon to be dictated to Spain by the Great Powers which dictated to Czechoslovakia, keynoted to the world public...