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Keystone of the Anglo-Italian negotiations was Italy's pledge to withdraw her troops from Rightist Spain, at which time the agreement would go into effect. This seemed "realistic" indeed at the time. Day before the pact was signed Rightist Generalissimo Franco's troops planted their flags on the shores of the Mediterranean and both Chamberlain and Mussolini were convinced that further Leftist resistance would be short-lived. But the Leftists refused to quit. And the thing that gave them most heart was the arrival of at least 200 new planes, presumably from Russia (see p. 16), besides...
Safest way for a newspaperman to travel through Rightist Spain is to tread softly without stepping on the toes of Rightist Generalissimo Franco. Last week, safely perched on British Gibraltar after a six-week journey from end to end of Rightist territory, New York Times Staffwriter Harold Callender filed his first detailed dispatches on the German and Italian forces operating in Franco Spain...
...triple alliance between Chancellor Adolf Hitler, Premier Mussolini and General Franco is widely advertised and exalted by Rightist propaganda. Portraits of the three dictators appear on postcards. Every hotel this traveler has seen in Rightist Spain displays German. Italian and Rightist flags together," Callender wrote. "Mussolini's face, framed in a tin hat. glowers from the walls. Hitler's visage and book are shown in every town. . . . The Franco press, which uses foreign news selected by the German official news bureau, publishes nothing unfavorable to Hitler and Mussolini...
Newsman Callender was also able to throw additional light on the Yague Case. Fortnight ago, top-flight General Juan Yague, a personal friend of Franco and prominent in the recent Rightist march to the sea, was reported imprisoned because he had publicly rebuked the Dictator for indiscriminate bombings and the employment of German and Italian assistance (TIME, May 23). Last week. Callender revealed that General Yague had gone much further. General Yague is a popular Left-wing leader of the Falange Española, the blue-shirted group of some 1,000,000 members, officially recognized as an instrument...
...northern front, rain continued to bog down all large-scale attacks. Bands from the Leftist "Lost Battalion," entrenched and virtually surrounded in the Pyrenees south of Lourdes, France, sallied forth in guerilla attacks, made no appreciable gains. As further encouragement to Rightist Franco the Vatican, following 18 months of semi-official recognition of his Government, this week granted him full diplomatic recognition...