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...were General José Sanjurjo, Marquis del Riff, General Manuel Goded, General Francisco Franco. General Sanjurjo was killed in an airplane crash near Lisbon, General Goded was captured, imprisoned and executed when he failed to take Barcelona. No. 3 of the original slate - General Franco - became head of the Rightist Army. Meanwhile, in turbulent Leftist Madrid, Premier Casares Quiroga stepped down, to be succeeded, in a day of whirlwind Cabinet shiftings, first by the now-forgotten Diego Martinez Barrio, then by Republican José Giral Pereira...
...most trusted henchmen now are Generals Miguel Aranda, Rafael Garcia Valino and José Varela, each in charge of one of the three prongs of the Valencia drive. Last week General Varela's Castilian Army Corps won a signal victory by capturing heavily-fortified Mora de Rubielos. The Rightist Armies continued in a swift advance down a steep grade, capturing Barracas, 3,000 feet above the sea, nearing Viber, 1,500 feet high, threatening Segorbe, 900 feet...
...With Rightist arms in possession of three-fourths of all Spain, with Rightist Armies steadily advancing, most observers believed last week that Franco was headed for a final victory. In a war full of surprises, however, with the retreating Leftist soldiers contesting every square mile, few could predict that victory would be soon...
...olive brown troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Rightist Army drove on through the vineyards, the fruit and palm trees of Spain's Levant last week. Edging down the Mediterranean coast a few miles a day, they camped each night a little nearer Valencia. Capturing the once pleasant and prosperous resort of Nules and the little town of Villavieja, two miles inland, as the week ended the Rightist Galician troops commanded by General Miguel Aranda were within ten miles of Sagunto, 25 miles of Valencia...
...Government last week had its hands full defending Britain's domestic air defenses, from another quarter it was questioned on the security of nothing less than "The Rock'' itself. Was the Prime Minister aware, asked Her Grace the Duchess of Atholl, Conservative M. P., that Spanish Rightist Generalissimo Franco, with Italian and German aid, has so fortified the Spanish seacoast overlooking Gibraltar as to make this keystone of empire practically worthless...