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Based on his contacts with Rightist Spain's business interests, aristocrats, clericals and soldiers, Correspondent Callender concluded: If General Franco succeeds in winning the war, "some form of revolution or fundamental change is inevitable. . . . Landlords and industrialists seem ready to admit some reforms. These are new attitudes. . . . This never would have happened had they not been threatened by a Leftist revolution. So it seems accurate to say that the Left will achieve its revolution after...
...planes of Leftist Spain bombed Caude, the Rightist air base near Teruel, last week. Later, Leftist communiqués announced as the result the destruction of 25 Italian Fiat pursuit planes. Near Cedrillas, on the Teruel-to-the-sea front, Leftists reported that the Rightist advance had been checked with the aid of their bombing and strafing aviation...
...drive to Madrid. Then the aerial tide turned. In October and November 1936, Russian planes of the American Boeing type- nicknamed "chatos" (snub-nosed) by Madrilenians-had arrived in such numbers that in the following two months Leftists eliminated the fierce aerial bombing of Madrid, stopped two strong Rightist offensives. Then early this year, Franco's augmented air force blasted a bloody path for his march to the sea, splitting Leftist territory in two this spring...
...ground, last week, Rightist troops straightened out the southern end of their corridor to the sea. At week's end, Catalan Leftist troops were on the offensive near the hydraulic power station at Tremp, on the Catalan front...
...characteristic self-effacement went to War as Private Crichton-Stuart, also owns London and Edinburgh town houses, Kames Castle and Mount Stuart, Rothesay, on the Isle of Bute, the luxurious Moorish-style El Minzah Palace Hotel of Tangier, the Castle of Guadacorte, about ten miles north of Gibraltar in Rightist Spain...