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Because the successful offensive last spring of Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco split Leftist Spain into two parts, mail has since been carried between Valencia and Barcelona chiefly by submarine. Last week in the U. S. arrived copies of the issue of one, two, six and ten peseta "submarine stamps" (see cut), all illustrated with submarines, by which the Leftists have commemorated the fact of their physical division...
...world watched Neville Chamberlain come home from having a dish of tea with Adolf Hitler (see p. 15), the Prime Minister's half sister-in-law Lady Chamberlain came home last week from having dishes and dishes of tea with Señora Carmen Franco and the Rightist Generalissimo. She was instantly denounced by Leftists of all shades...
Forest fires on mountain slopes in the Leftist-held Ebro River salient last week brought a Rightist offensive to a sudden halt, resulted in the 26-month-old war's quietest week. Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco himself commanded during the early part of this drive. Mentioned casually, however, last week in a Rightist communiqué as the new commander of the Ebro offensive was able, forceful General Juan Yague, who directed the successful Rightist offensive last spring. This meant that General Yague, relieved of his command-rumored even to have been put in jail-because of an "indiscreet" speech...
When, 17 months ago, foreign correspondents reported that the strategically unimportant holy Basque city of Guernica had been ruthlessly destroyed by German bombers in the service of Rightist Spain, ace French Newscommentator "Pertinax" (André Géraud) had a ready explanation. According to him, Air Marshal Hermann Göring of Germany ordered the bombing as an experiment of the effectiveness of the air attack...
...wrote his 120,000-word book. In June he left Falmouth with Wilbur Thomas, 25, an American acquaintance who had come from California to sail the last lap with him. Prime experience on a 75-day Atlantic crossing was getting overhauled in the Bay of Biscay by a Spanish Rightist patrol and being jailed overnight as would-be assassins of General Franco...