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Correspondents with the Leftist Armies, retreating before the Spanish Rightist offensive on a front of 200 miles (see map) kept darting warily up into this town or that last week, scuttling back almost as soon as they arrived. As one cabled, "the changing front is like shifting sands." In frenzied efforts to keep the People's Army fighting, such powerful speakers were rushed to the front as Communist Deputy André Marty of the French Chamber who dashed about shouting: "Fight on! French troops are coming to help you repel the Fascist hordes. If you can hold...
Meanwhile the great Rightist offensive was doing well, but the caution of the Generalissimo continued strongly in evidence. The No. 2 city of Catalonia is Lerida, No. 1 being Barcelona, and last week Rightist General Juan Yague waited for three whole days with an overwhelming force before Lérida, while other supporting Rightist units on his left and right wings completed their scheduled gains. Then the Generalissimo ordered: "Proceed to take Lérida!" In a full day of savage street fighting, with Rightist tanks crashing down barricades, artillery pounding ahead, Lérida was taken...
...Generalissimo had thus won "The Key to Barcelona," as even the Leftists have called Lérida, but it was 80 miles to the keyhole. With General Yague just starting keyholeward this week, twelve assorted Rightist forces were all making unchallenged claims to sweeping victories all the way from the French frontier which was smothered with refugees, down to Teruel. A major Rightist drive hurled itself down the widening valley of the Ebro River, and with Leftists surrendering so fast that what to do with so many prisoners became an acute Rightist problem, the Generalissimo besieged Tortosa from the land...
...letter to the Motor License Department of the London County Council-a British Labor stronghold headed by famed Herbert Morrison, who may well be the next Labor Prime Minister. He asked that Don Jose Fernandez Villaverde, secretary to the Duke of Alba, who is the representative in London of Rightist Spain, be granted a renewal of his driving license "without requiring him to undergo a driving test or pay the fee of five shillings normally chargeable...
This week Generalissimo Franco replied directly to a protest by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with a note saying that the Rightists bomb cities and towns "only when military necessity leaves no alternative." At Salamanca the official Rightist spokesman declared: "Our objective in Barcelona was primarily the terminals of the railroad system, but the casualties in the city were heavier than they might have been because the North subway station had been turned into an underground ammunition depot. The storage of ammunition in the heart of a city is against the most elementary rules of war. The result was that...